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    Yukio Mishima
    “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
    ― Yukio Mishima
    tags: beauty, cruelty, love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
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    “Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which begs the question of why you are an exception.”
    ― Al Stone, Talisman of El
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    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    ― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies
    tags: misattributed-george-santayana
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE
    tags: inspirational, understanding
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    Francisco de Goya
    “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters”
    ― Francisco Goya
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “Îl zăpăcise pur și simplu mulțimea aceea nespus de pestriță, de parcă diavolul fărâmase lumea bucăți și le adunase apoi la loc, fără niciun sens, fără niciun rost.”
    ― Gogol Nikolai
    tags: devil, life, n-v-gogol, nevski-prospekt, world
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    Thomas Mann
    “He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.”
    ― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
    tags: polar-expeditions
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  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: animals, attributed-no-source, friends, humor, vegetarianism
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    James Clavell
    “Oare ce-s nourii
    Daca nu o justificare a cerului?
    Oare ce-i viata
    Daca nu o amanare a mortii?”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
    tags: haiku, kasigi-yabu, shogun
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
    ― Emil Cioran
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    John Milton
    “For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
    ― John Milton, Areopagitica
    tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect
    1531 likes

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    Carl Sandburg
    “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
    ― Carl Sandburg
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural
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  • #23
    Tite Kubo
    “You are so, even when falling." (Byakuya Kuchiki)”
    ― Tite Kubo
    tags: bleach, byakuya, kuchiki
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    James Clavell
    “How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
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    James Clavell
    “Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
    tags: funny, humor
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    James Clavell
    “.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
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  • #27
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #30
    Dennis Lehane
    “There's something ugly about the flawless.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, Sacred
    2066 likes



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