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    W.H. Auden
    “Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
    Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks,
    Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh
    There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.”
    ― W. H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.”
    ― W.H. Auden, Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations
    tags: esteem, inspirational, life-experience, self-awareness, self-esteem
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    W.H. Auden
    “Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”
    ― W. H. Auden
    tags: love, sleep, society-denial, truth
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    W.H. Auden
    “The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    W.H. Auden
    “All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ”
    ― W. H. Auden
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    “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
    ― Gospel of Thomas
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    W.H. Auden
    “Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: authenticity, originality, writers, writers-on-writing, writing
    45 likes

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    W.H. Auden
    “Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    William S. Burroughs
    “There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads
    tags: minding-your-own-business, provocative
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    W.H. Auden
    “The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.”
    ― W.H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
    tags: eating, heaven, hell
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    Agustina Bessa-Luís
    “O sofrimento é como a liberdade: só aos corações de grande fortaleza pode aproveitar, aos outros humilha-os e corrompe-os, e mais nada.”
    ― Agustina Bessa-Luís, Contemplação Carinhosa da Angústia
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    T.S. Eliot
    “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: blood, ink, inspirational, literature
    400 likes

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  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Beauty will save the world.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
    tags: beauty
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    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true
    1827 likes

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    Robert Graves
    “I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.”
    ― Robert Graves
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    Frank Zappa
    “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
    ― Frank Zappa
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
    6030 likes

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    Stephen King
    “To write is human, to edit is divine.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: inspirational
    362 likes

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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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  • #21
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: politics-language
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    William Randolph Hearst
    “News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
    ― William Randolph Hearst
    tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations
    715 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    448 likes

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  • #24
    Raymond Chandler
    “A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
    ― Raymond Chandler
    tags: writing
    91 likes

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  • #25
    George Orwell
    “The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: language, political-correctness
    328 likes

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    George Orwell
    “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: courage, truth
    374 likes

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  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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  • #28
    Martin Amis
    “Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
    ― Martin Amis
    656 likes

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  • #29
    H.L. Mencken
    “Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.”
    ― H. L. Mencken
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    H.L. Mencken
    “the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: political-philosophy
    117 likes

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  • #31
    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
    764 likes



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