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    Nick Hornby
    “If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: high-fidelity-nick-hornby
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    Julian Barnes
    “Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.”
    ― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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    Bill Watterson
    “There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: idleness, time, wasting-time
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
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    Victor Hugo
    “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
    ― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
    tags: love, soul, stars
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
    tags: all, better-go, just, leaving, words
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
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    Immanuel Kant
    “One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
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    David Nicholls
    “Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.”
    ― David Nicholls, One Day
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer
    tags: personal
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “We all have souls of different ages”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    Anaïs Nin
    “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
    ― Anais Nin
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Charles Bukowski
    “There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
    but I'm too tough for him,
    I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: escapism, page-192
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  • #21
    “I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    tags: bdsm, erotica
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    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland
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    Neil Gaiman
    “In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
    tags: depression, life
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    Jodi Picoult
    “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
    ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
    tags: death, heart, love
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: happiness, pain
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth
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    David Foster Wallace
    “The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: comformism, difference, individuality, isolation, suicide
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Karl Pilkington
    “Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.”
    ― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
    tags: gandhi, humor, india, travel
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