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#1

“She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.”
― Joseph Conrad

#2

“I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

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#3

“I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.”
― Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

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#4

“Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.”
― Joseph Conrad

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#5

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape

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#6

“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
― Roland Barthes

tags: death, grief, loss, mourning, suffering

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#7

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

tags: death, grief, loss

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#8

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

tags: self, self-esteem, self-esteem-or-lack-thereof, self-hatred, self-loathing

190 likes

#9

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann

tags: accomplishment, achievement, death, humanity, victory

548 likes

#10

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#11

“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

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#12

“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: alive, bad, beauty, books, experience, life, read, stories, ugly

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#13

“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Fairy Tales

tags: bad, good

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#14

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

tags: joy, memory, past, sorrow, yearning

124 likes

#15

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

5324 likes

#16

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
― Rudy Francisco

tags: readers, reading, writers, writing

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