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    Jodi Picoult
    “I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact
    tags: love
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    Jodi Picoult
    “A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.”
    ― Jodi Picoult
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    “Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.”
    ― Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark
    tags: choices, death, suicidal-thoughts
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    Susanna Kaysen
    “A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
    ― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
    tags: autobiography, borderline-personality-disorder, suicidal-thoughts, suicide
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    Bangambiki Habyarimana
    “Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.”
    ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
    tags: awake-in-life, life, life-is-a-dream, life-lessons, philosophy-of-life, suicide, suicide-attempt
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adhd, anger, bipolar, disorders, extremes, feelings, hate, illness, love, mental-disorders, ocd, out-of-balance, sensitiveness
    392 likes

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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
    tags: books, humor, reading
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    Cassandra Clare
    “When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: character, deeds
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    “It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world.”
    ― Gary Starta
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    C.J. Roberts
    “People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
    ― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
    tags: caleb, captive-in-the-dark, dark, light
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
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    “It takes darkness to be aware of the light.”
    ― Treasure Tatum
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    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: uncertainty
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    Juansen Dizon
    “I whispered to my heart “Is everything meaningless?”

    “It doesn’t really matter,” It smiled. “Nothing matters.”
    ― Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction
    tags: juansen-dizon, nihilism, tumblr, tumblr-poetry, tumblr-quotes, tumblr-writer
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    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: poetry, truth
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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  • #30
    “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
    ― Lauren Conrad
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