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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
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    William Faulkner
    “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: heartbreak, love, soldier-s-pay
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    William Faulkner
    “If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: writing
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    William Faulkner
    “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: love
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    William Faulkner
    “It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. ”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: humor
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    William Faulkner
    “Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: ashamed, honesty, yourself
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    William Faulkner
    “It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
    tags: help
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    William Faulkner
    “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    William Faulkner
    “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: newspapers, truth
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    William Faulkner
    “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: writing
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    William Faulkner
    “She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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    William Faulkner
    “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “Caddy smelled like trees.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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    William Faulkner
    “She was the captain of her soul”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130225 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119118 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151532 likes



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