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    Patañjali
    “For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
    near them, waiting.”
    ― Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A person hears only what they understand.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
    822 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time
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  • #12
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: poetry
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  • #13
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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  • #14
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
    tags: death, life
    529 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “The gods have become our diseases.”
    ― C.G. Jung
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  • #17
    C.G. Jung
    “We are not what happened to us,
    we are what we wish to become.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: inspirationsal
    143 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “Image is psyche.”
    ― C.G. Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
    ― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
    tags: dreams, mythology
    325 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain
    3754 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: happiness, human-nature, humanity, perfection, time
    1200 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
    3898 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: death, sleep
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence
    1077 likes

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  • #27
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: poetry
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  • #28
    Poe
    “The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
    ― Poe
    tags: lyrics, misattributed-edgar-allan-poe, poe-singer
    519 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: misquote, poetry
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  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
    2466 likes

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  • #31
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
    9724 likes



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