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    Sylvia Plath
    “Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

    (This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: life, light, love
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: knowledge
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    Robert Browning
    “how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”
    ― Robert Browning
    tags: love, nostalgia, reflection, the-past
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    T.S. Eliot
    “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
    tags: age, aging, fall, nostalgia, past
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
    I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
    ― jonathan safran foer
    tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude
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    “Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
    ― Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
    tags: aching-heart, billy-holiday, breakups, central-features, circumstances, comeback, desperation, dwelling, edna-st-vincent-millay, ex-lovers, feelings, hole-in-the-world, imagination, impressive-comeback, intense-desire, love, mental-environment, negative-experiences, nostalgia, phenomenon, reciprocity, romantic-life, scars, st-vincent-millay
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    Groucho Marx
    “I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: humour, nostalgia
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    “I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
    ― Kris Kristofferson
    tags: memory, nostalgia, song-lyrics
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
    tags: collecting, love, museum, nostalgia, space, time
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    William Faulkner
    “Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
    tags: memories, nostalgia
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.”
    ― Shannon Alder
    tags: feelings, growth, learning, love, maturity, moments, nostalgia, relationships, romance, stages
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    David Benioff
    “There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.”
    ― David Benioff, When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories
    tags: happiness, nostalgia
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz
    tags: brotherhood-of-man, equal-rights
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: fish, vegetarianism
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    Franz Kafka
    “Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
    ― Kafka, Franzv
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    Franz Kafka
    “I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, letters, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “Please — consider me a dream.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: dream
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    Franz Kafka
    “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “I lack nothing. I only needed myself.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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