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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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    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
    tags: fantasy, stories, storytelling, young-adult
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering
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    Ian McEwan
    “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: daydreaming, dreams, fantasy, imagination, life
    690 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: fantasy
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    Walt Disney Company
    “Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
    ― Walt Disney
    tags: fantasy, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: eowyn, fantasy, lord-of-the-rings, éowyn
    570 likes

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    Michael Ende
    “Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
    tags: change, entropy, fantasy, taoism
    417 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “Into the sky to win or die.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
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    Charles de Lint
    “Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.”
    ― Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl
    tags: fantasy, teen
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Butterflies and zebras
    and moonbeams and fairy tales,
    That's all she ever thinks about,
    Riding with the wind.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: daydreams, dreams, fantasies, fantasy, imagination, innocence
    218 likes

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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer, come in,
    If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
    A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
    If you're a pretender come sit by my fire
    For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
    tags: fantasy, invitation
    226 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
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    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
    6617 likes

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  • #15
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
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    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    ― Shel Silverstein
    tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes
    3785 likes

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    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: ee-cummings, poetry
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    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry
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    Novalis
    “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
    ― Novalis
    tags: healing, poetry
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    Marc Wambolt
    “I may not always be with you
    But when we're far apart
    Remember you will be with me
    Right inside my heart”
    ― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow
    1426 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: humor, poetry, religion
    3237 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry
    2622 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: poetry
    1321 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
    tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow
    1281 likes

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    Sara Teasdale
    “It is strange how often a heart must be broken
    Before the years can make it wise.”
    ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
    tags: heart, heartbreak, poetry, wisdom
    698 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “It’s the fire in my eyes,
    And the flash of my teeth,
    The swing in my waist,
    And the joy in my feet.
    I’m a woman
    Phenomenally.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
    tags: confidence, poetry, womanhood
    446 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I will soothe you and heal you,
    I will bring you roses.
    I too have been covered with thorns.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: mysticism, poetry, rumi
    446 likes

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    Joseph Brodsky
    “For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: poetry
    457 likes



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