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#1

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: freedom

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#2

“If there is a God, I'd like to look him in the face knowing I'd died as I lived. In conscious sin.”
― Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love

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#3

“Things and people moved around me, taking positions in obscure hierarchies, participating in systems I didn't know about and never would. A complex network of objects and concepts. You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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#4

“How dare he not give a fuck? What a luxury, the luxury of a man. The luxury of someone who looked at the ravages of time and went, “Eh.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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#5

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
― Robert Frost

tags: hell, individualism, libertarianism, rights

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#6

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: comedy, elizabethan, robin-goodfellow

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#7

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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#8

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

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#9

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry

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#10

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, advice, books, bright, brightness, city-of-angels-movie, connected, dark, dark-angels, darkness, friendship, guardian-angels, inspiration, inspirational-authors, learned-lessons, life-lessons, light, moon, night, novels, plans, seekers, seeking, shine, sky, spiritual-guides, trials, white-paths, wisdom

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#11

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed

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#12

“I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don't really have the ambition and ego to be a leader—they don't see any interest in the rewards, they don't care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment.”
― Richard Linklater, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays

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#13

“I don’t know why I’ve always been like this, why the smallest things make me ache inside. There’s a poem I read once, titled “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and I guess that is the best way to describe the feeling—the world is too much with me.”
― Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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#14

“Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.”
― Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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#15

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
― Max Frisch

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#16

“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.”
― robert m drake

tags: happyquotes, hope, inspirational, inspirationalquotes, inspired, instadaily, instaquote, lovequotes, pinquotes, poems, poetry, quote, quoteoftheday, quotes, relationships, rmdrake, sadquotes, sayings, spokenword, tattoo, typewriter, vsco, writer, writing

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#17

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks

tags: awarness, giving-others-space, love, manners, self-care, self-confidence

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#18

“What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

tags: romance-book-quotes

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#19

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: aloneness, community, escape, fear, loneliness, love, relationship, solitude

546 likes

#20

“You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are an animal whose needs are not being met.”
― Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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#21

“Yes.” MiMi’s affirmation infuses the air with power. “Strength. Dignity. Courage. All these things belong to you. Take them back. Your soul is yours. Your heart is yours. Your body is yours. Yours to keep and yours to share.” Yours to keep and yours to share.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

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#22

“because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
― John Green

tags: nerdfighters

5634 likes

#23

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

4578 likes

#24

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom

2014 likes

#25

“How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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#26

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.”
― Lovelle Drachman

tags: curiosity, inspirational, travel

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#27

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

24006 likes

#28

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4744 likes

#29

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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#30

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

5895 likes

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