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#1

“If I were in their place, I’d fall over myself.”
― Sartre J.-P.

tags: nausea

8 likes

#2

“I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.”
― Sartre J.-P.

13 likes

#3

“Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

tags: nausea

71 likes

#4

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: bad, charming, good, tedious

3498 likes

#5

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

1545 likes

#6

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper

804 likes

#7

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
― Voltaire

477 likes

#8

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

430 likes

#9

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: wit

291 likes

#10

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

108 likes

#11

“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― walt whitman

tags: afterlife, life-and-death, living

212 likes

#12

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry

5658 likes

#13

“I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
― William S. Burroughs

620 likes

#14

“If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
― William S. Burroughs

501 likes

#15

“What we see, we see
and seeing is changing”
― Adrienne Rich

28 likes

#16

“This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays?
to give a ground of meaning to our pain?”
― Adrienne Rich

4 likes

#17

“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

35 likes

#18

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

3422 likes

#19

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: imagination, intelligence, reason

957 likes

#20

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

tags: feelings, persistence, problems

2619 likes

#21

“You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mind- with one thought less, each year.”
― Ezra Pound

tags: portrait-of-a-lady

11 likes

#22

“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

617 likes

#23

“Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

252 likes

#24

“Faire souffrir c'est posséder et créer tout autant que détruire.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire

tags: sartre, souffrir

7 likes

#25

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
― T.S. Eliot.

tags: illusion, life, time

695 likes

#26

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

tags: relationships

1532 likes

#27

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: infatuation, love, memory, recollection, remembrance

1666 likes

#28

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight To Arras: A Gripping Classic – French Aviators Defy Impossible Odds During the Fall of France in World War 2

tags: life, philosophy

647 likes

#29

“Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell & Other Poems

tags: appreciation, beauty

8 likes

#30

“La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

20 likes

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