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#1

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: art, baudelaire, beauty, life

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#2

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#3

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
― André Gide

tags: cowardice, fear, ridicule

141 likes

#4

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

5100 likes

#5

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

tags: acceptance, getting-over-it

785 likes

#6

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.”
― Quentin Crisp

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#7

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
― John Waters

tags: books, reading

820 likes

#8

“Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: criticism, emotion, philosophy

124 likes

#9

“Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.”
― Quentin Crisp, How to Have a Lifestyle

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#10

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

tags: literature, reading, writing

617 likes

#11

“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”
― Salvador Dalí

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#12

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

2182 likes

#13

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: art, creativity, philosophy

506 likes

#14

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21522 likes

#15

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

2739 likes

#16

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

2427 likes

#17

“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.”
― Andre Gide

377 likes

#18

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: books, library

1432 likes

#19

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art

1803 likes

#20

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

62176 likes

#21

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: art, haunted, house, nature

1040 likes

#22

“There is only one success: to be able to spend life in your own way and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.”
― Christopher Darlington Morley

15 likes

#23

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
― George Bernard Shaw

324 likes

#24

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: feminism, writing

936 likes

#25

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

tags: confidence

1654 likes

#26

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

tags: integrity, self-esteem

477 likes

#27

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. ”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: books, reading, writing

106 likes

#28

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

8286 likes

#29

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

5077 likes

#30

“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. ”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: gender

55 likes

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