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#1

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: afternoon, schedule, tea, toast

#2

“He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie -- boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily out of need, but also for the pathological pleasure of killing a god.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

tags: deceit

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#3

“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#4

“Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#5

“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

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#6

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

tags: humor, thinking

1388 likes

#7

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

619 likes

#8

“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: acceptance, humor, paradox

397 likes

#9

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
― Dean Koontz

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#11

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#11

“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

tags: fake, life, living, people, people-relations, society, struggle, survival

103 likes

#12

“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#13

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#14

“I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

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#15

“The stupidity of a well-placed "dude" can really defuse a situation”
― Chris Lynch, Hothouse

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#16

“Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.”
― Heather Brewer, First Kill

tags: heartbreak, love, sadness

148 likes

#17

“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

tags: conscience

47 likes

#18

“When I kill a man, I do it with my sword, but people like you don't use swords. You gentlemen kill with your power, with your money, and sometimes just with your words: you tell people you're doing them a favor. True, no blood flows, the man is still alive, but you've killed him all the same. I don't know whose sin is greater - yours or mine.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

tags: japanese, japanese-literature, short-stories

55 likes

#19

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

11834 likes

#20

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

6444 likes

#21

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

4677 likes

#22

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire

2711 likes

#23

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

tags: inspirational

2080 likes

#24

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

1848 likes

#25

“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

tags: fallen, lauren-kate, luce, miss-sophia

1190 likes

#26

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

1126 likes

#27

“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: self-determination

532 likes

#28

“Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”
― Dean Koontz

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#29

“Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

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#30

“She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

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