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    Jennifer Niven
    “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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    H.D.
    “...if you do not even understand what words say,
    how can you expect to pass judgement
    on what words conceal?”
    ― H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
    tags: conceal, doolittle, h-d, hilda, modernism, poetry, poets, words
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Ezra Pound
    “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
    Petals on a wet black bough.”
    ― Ezra Pound
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    Ezra Pound
    “I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
    Forever and forever and forever.”
    ― Ezra Pound
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    Gillian Flynn
    “A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: dark
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For I have known them all already, known them all—
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
    tags: life
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: books
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    Anton Chekhov
    “What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
    ― A.P. Chekhov
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    Jennifer Niven
    “It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
    tags: all-the-bright-places, depression, experience, hurting, mental-illness, ya
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: breath, existence
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: humor, intimacy, sexual
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

    I do not think that they will sing to me.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    tags: loneliness, mermaid, observation, singing
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    tags: patience
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
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    Kiersten White
    “I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you”
    ― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
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    William Shakespeare
    “I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: father-and-daughter, honesty, king-lear, love, tragedy
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    William Shakespeare
    “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: cry, fools, newborn, stage
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    William Shakespeare
    “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
    tags: life, love, permanence, sonnet-18
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    Henrik Ibsen
    “You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
    ― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
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    Henrik Ibsen
    “Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
    Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.”
    ― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
    tags: honor, sacrifice
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    Samuel Beckett
    “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: death, existentialism, time
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All I know is that the hours are long... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: intellectual
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    Arthur Miller
    “Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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    Arthur Miller
    “Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
    tags: sad-but-true
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    Alexander Pope
    “Know then thyself; presume not God to scan,
    The proper study of mankind is Man.
    Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
    A being darkly wise and rudely great:
    With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
    And too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
    He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
    In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast;
    In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
    Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err.
    Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
    Whether he thinks too little or too much.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man & Satires
    tags: essay, man
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