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#1

“Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: kafka, murakami, samsa-in-love

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#2

“[On the cities of Venice and Varanasi]

Everywhere you look there is evidence of the enchantment of decay, of a kind of beauty that can only be revealed by a long, slow fading.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

tags: beauty, decay, wilting

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#3

“All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: decay, impermanence, life-and-death, naruto, orochimaru

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#4

“I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

tags: hold-on, lauren-destefano, precious, rhine-ellery, wither

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#5

“Negative people talk and your dreams begin to wither off. But they begin to sprout in the fragrance of hope when they find a new soil! Change your environment!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: begin, change, dream, dreams, environment, fragrance, hope, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, negativity, new-soil, people, soil, sprout, talk, wither

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#6

“I am intrigued. I am fearless.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

tags: fearlessness, intrigue, lauren-destefano, rhine-ellery, wither

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#7

“When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.”
― Amit Ray

tags: across-the-valley, compassion, fragrance, fragrance-quotes, fragrance-spreads, fragrances, heart, petals, petals-on-the-wind, unfold, unfolding, unfolding-moment

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#8

“Butterflies are but petals upon the sky.”
― Jazz Feylynn

tags: butterflies, butterfly, feylynn, jazz, jazz-feylynn, petals, sky, upon-the-sky

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#9

“These flowers are starwort," she said. "Starwort means 'welcome.' By giving you a bouquet of starwort, I'm welcoming you to my home, to my life." She twirled buttery pasta on her fork and looked into my eyes without a glimmer of humor.
"They look like daisies to me," I said. "And I still think they're poisonous."
"They aren't poisonous, and they aren't daisies. See how they only have five petals but it looks like they have ten? Each pair of petals is connected in the center." Picking up the small bouquet of flowers, I examined the little white bundle. The petals grew together before attaching to the stem, so that each petal was the shape of a heart.
"That's a characteristic of the genus 'Stellaria,'" Elizabeth went on, when she could see that I understood. "Daisy is a common name, and spans many different families, but the flowers we call daisies typically have more petals, and each petal grows separate from the others. It's important to know the difference or you may confuse the meaning. Daisy means 'innocence', which is a very different sentiment than 'welcome.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

tags: daisy, elizabeth-and-victoria, flowers, innocence, petals, starwort, stellaria, welcome

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#10

“The heavens opened for the sunset to-night. When I had thought the day folded and sealed, came a burst of heavenly bright petals.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield

tags: heavens, petals, sunset

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#11

“And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze,
And so the blossoms fall, and so my days ...”
― Onitsura

tags: cherry-blossoms, haiku, spring, springtime, transience

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#12

“Due to their short bloom time, Sakura blossoms are a metaphor for life itself: beautiful yet fleeting. You’ll realize when you’re as old as me to hang on to the good times because they won’t last forever.”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

tags: beauty-in-nature, beauty-quotes, cherry-blossoms, flowers-quotes

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#13

“Go as far as you can—way out yonder where the crawdads sing.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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#14

“Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs."
"Really?"
"Oh, yes."
She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?"
"They just are."
"In what way?"
"In a magicky way."
She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?"
"Not really.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

tags: conversation, derek-landy, funny, humor, magic, skulduggery-pleasant, stairs, valkyrie

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#15

“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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#16

“You are in the house and the house in the woods. The woods are in the house. The stairs are in the house. Down the stairs is the hallway, and at the end of the hallway is the ballroom. You are in the ballroom. The ballroom is in the house. You are in the house and the house is in you.
The house is in the woods. You are in the woods.
You can be good. In the house.
You are in the house and the house is in today.
Today is not a moment. Today is not a point. Today is an infinite area. Today is forever. Everything that has happened and will happen is now. Everything that has been and will be is here. And everything is good. Everything is fine.
You are not sad. You are not afraid. You are not hateful. Because you are here. You are here. You are inside. And you are ready.
You are here. You are in. And doesn’t it feel good?
You are in the house and the house is in the woods.
You are in the house and the house is in you.”
― Elisabeth Thomas, Catherine House

tags: creepy, cult, dark, dark-academia, dark-academic, house, thriller

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#17

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: march, summer, sun, wind, winter

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#18

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

tags: melancholy, night, sad, winter

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#19

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
― Gustave Flaubert, November

tags: heart, rain, sadness, winter

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#20

“Winter solstice: the darkest time of the year. No sooner has he woken up in the morning than he feels the day beginning to slip away from him. There is no light to sink his teeth into, no sense of time unfolding. Rather, a feeling of doors being shut, of locks being turned. It is a hermetic season, a long moment of inwardness. The outer world, the tangible world of materials and bodies, has come to seem no more than an emanation of his mind. He feels himself sliding through events, hovering like a ghost around his own presence, as if he were living somewhere to the side of himself - not really here, but not anywhere else either. A feeling of having been locked up, and at the same time of being able to walk through walls. He notes somewhere in the margins of a thought: a darkness in the bones.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

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#21

“Look: this is January the worst onslaught
is ahead of us Don't be lured
by these soft grey afternoons these sunsets cut
from pink and violet tissue-paper by the thought
the days are lengthening
Don't let the solstice fool you:
our lives will always be
a stew of contradictions
the worst moment of winter can come in April
when the peepers are stubbornly still
and our bodies
plod on without conviction
and our thoughts cramp down before the sheer
arsenal of everything that tries us:
this battering, blunt-edged life”
― Adrienne Rich, Your Native Land, Your Life

tags: challenges, difficulties, life, poem, poetry, solstice, winter

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#22

“She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.”
― Nicole Lyons

tags: authentic, authentic-self, authenticity, beautiful-mind, beautiful-minds, beautiful-quotes, beautiful-soul, boho, boho-girl, boho-quotes, deep-soul, genuine, gypsy-soul, happiness-quotes, joy, love-quotes, nicole-lyons, nicole-lyons-poetry, nicole-lyons-quotes, old-soul, old-soul-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote, quotes, she-quote, she-quotes, she-walks-in-beauty, she-will-rise, soul-quotes, strong-women, vibe, vibes, vintage, wanderlust, word-porn

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#23

“Feeling - what authentic human fun!”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: crime, lizard, vintage

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#24

“Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

tags: black, black-and-white, black-white, ca-vikram-verma, chartered-accountant, colors, corpkshetra, inspirational, last, last-season, motivational, new, newest, season, vikram, vikram-verma, vikrmn, vintage, vv, white

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#25

“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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#26

“Oh to be standing next to a stranger, staring at the same painting in an art museum, an unspoken romance between us.”
― tearinthestars

tags: art, museum, strangers

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#27

“In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: antiquity, architecture, art, art-history, artist, artistry, artwork, craft, craftsmanship, creation, creative-process, creativity, creatures, genius, grandeur, great-works-of-art, masterpiece, michelangelo, mona-lisa, museum, object-of-art, painting, sculpture, work-of-art

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#28

“La rue est une musée pour tous!”
― Hergé

tags: belgium, french, funny, museum, people-watching, streets

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#29

“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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#30

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: change, survival

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