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    Margaret Atwood
    “Last year I abstained
    this year I devour

    without guilt
    which is also an art”
    ― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy
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    W.B. Yeats
    “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: poetry
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”
    ― W. B. Yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: pessimism, poems, poetry, resignation
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    W.B. Yeats
    “And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    Samuel Beckett
    “That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: life
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    Richard Siken
    “Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
    These, our bodies, possessed by light.
    Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
    ― Richard Siken, Crush
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
    tags: happy, sebastian, summer, teddy-bear
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “O God, make me good, but not yet.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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    Jenny Holzer
    “It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
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    Jenny Holzer
    “Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”
    ― Jenny Holzer
    tags: all-too-true
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    Virgil
    “forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
    and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
    ― Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
    tags: 4-203, forsan, meminisse, optimism, perhaps, poetry
    167 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: books, wine
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    John Keats
    “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: imagination, love, truth
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    John Keats
    “Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: inspirational, lasting-words, tombstone-inscription
    161 likes

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    John Keats
    “I bade good morrow,
    And thought to leave her far away behind;
    But cheerly, cheerly,
    She loves me dearly;
    She is so constant to me, and so kind.

    - To Sorrow”
    ― John Keats, The Complete Poems
    tags: poetry, sorrow
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    James Baldwin
    “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: art, expression, james-baldwin, nausea, survival, vomit
    864 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: actions, choices
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    James Baldwin
    “Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections
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    James Baldwin
    “Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Audre Lorde
    “If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
    ― Audre Lorde
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    Audre Lorde
    “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
    ― audre lorde
    tags: equal-rights, equality, feminism, freedom, liberty, women
    1311 likes

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    Audre Lorde
    “I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
    ― Audre Lorde
    tags: empowering, silence, speaking-out, spoken
    768 likes



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