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#1

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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#2

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

10918 likes

#3

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: afterlife, philosophy, religion

535 likes

#4

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: living

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#5

“Really unreal world, will you perhaps do
the breathing for me while I am away?”
― E.E. Cummings

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#6

“...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...”
― William Butler Yeats

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#7

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
― Ezra Pound

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#8

“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
― Ezra Pound

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#9

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

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#10

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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#11

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#12

“Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”
― t.s. eliot

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#13

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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#14

“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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#15

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#16

“The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.”
― William Blake

tags: souls, stars

14 likes

#17

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#18

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

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#19

“I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel

tags: letting-go

593 likes

#20

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#21

“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: reading, winter

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#22

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: futility, pessimism

235 likes

#23

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: new-beginnings, new-year, new-year-s-day

822 likes

#24

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love

4284 likes

#25

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

tags: books, wine

1388 likes

#26

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69679 likes

#27

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.”
― T.S. Eliot

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#28

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

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#29

“Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

tags: something-to-ponder

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#29

“Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.”
― Haruki Murakami, 终於悲哀的外國語

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