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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Words without experience are meaningless.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

    - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Osamu Dazai
    “The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Thomas Harris
    “Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising
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    Knut Hamsun
    “I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

    And which do you love best?

    The dream.”
    ― Knut Hamsun, Pan
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
    ― Howard Phillips Lovecraft
    tags: dance, dancing, life
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: comprehension, dark-age, dissociated, dissociation, human-mind, science
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: letters, moving-on
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
    Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: god, mankind, organized-religion, religion
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: expectation, folly, hope, laugh, man, mankind, misanthropy, race, trust, weep
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: introspection, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5653 likes



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