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#1

“Time heals what reason cannot.”
― Seneca

tags: reason, time

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#2

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

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#3

“But on that pale hand is no ring of mine,
To no one will I give it, ever.
The new moon’s golden beam forged it for me,
And slipping it on in my sleep, whispered to
me entreatingly;
'Treasure this gift, be proud of the dream!'
I won’t give the ring to anyone, ever.”
― Anna Akhmatova

tags: dream, dreams, gold, hand, moon, ring, sleep

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#4

“Fear is the greatest incapacitator.”
― Jenny Holzer

tags: all-too-true

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#5

“Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.”
― Orson Welles, My Lunches with Orson

tags: feminine, femininity, masculine

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#6

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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#7

“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”
― Tori Amos

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#8

“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
― Ulysses S. Grant

tags: church-and-state, religion

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#9

“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: consciousness, dream, life

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#10

“If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
― George Eliot

tags: art, empathy, morality, sympathy

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#11

“Much of society is set up specifically to assist people in their process of ignoring the horrors of the world.”
― Andrea Dworkin

tags: horror, ignorance, society

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#12

“Complaining allows us to acknowledge the imperfect without having to take action- it lets us luxuriate in inertia.”
― Roxane Gay

tags: complaining, excuses, inertia

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#13

“The point of healing is not to return to a place where everything is perfect. Instead, it is to begin to develop the ability to respond to what's imperfect.”
― Brianna Wiest

tags: acceptance, healing, perfection

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#14

“One of the things I think is true, which is a way of thinking about the afterlife of slavery in regard to how we inhabit historical time, is the sense of temporal entanglement, where the past, the present and the future, are not discrete and cut off from one another, but rather that we live the simultaneity of that entanglement. This is almost common sense to Black folk. How does one narrate that?”
― Saidiya Hartman

tags: black-history, entanglement, history, slavery, temporal, time

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#15

“The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.”
― Dick Gregory

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#16

“In writing the history of a life I believe absolutely that the reader cannot understand the character and deeds of the subject unless he is given a basic understanding of that person's sexual loves and hates and conflicts. It is the only way the reader can make sense out of innumerable apparently senseless actions.”
― Louise Brooks, Lulu in Hollywood

tags: life, sexuality

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#17

“I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back.”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

tags: career-goals, forestry, outdoors, solitude, work

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#18

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

tags: music, power-of-music

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#19

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: activism, dissent, protest, truth-telling

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#20

“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
― Bjork

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#21

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

tags: creativity, dreams, gossip, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, paraphrased

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#22

“Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

tags: abuse, isolation, relationships, survivor, trauma, traumatization, traumatized, trust

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#23

“I know that, like many other writers, I have many faults, for I am the first to be dissatisfied with myself... I cannot help feeling that there is much more hidden in me than I have hitherto been able to express as a writer. And yet, speaking without false modesty, there is a great deal that is true and that came from my heart in what I have expressed already.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: writing

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#24

“If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.”
― Marc Maron

tags: criticism, fuck, humor, like

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#25

“I do not fear it: I have been there.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

tags: fear

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#26

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#27

“Incest is a crime committed against someone, a crime from which many victims never recover.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone

tags: crime, incest, recovery, victim

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#28

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: nationalism, patriotism, war

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#29

“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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#30

“A hundred times I have wanted to kill myself, but I was still in love with life. This absurd weakness is perhaps one of our deadliest attachments: can anything be more foolish than to keep carrying a fardel and yet keep wanting to throw it to the ground? To hold one's existence in horror, and yet cling to it?”
― Voltaire, Candide

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