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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: soul
    120 likes

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    Bill Hicks
    “I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: misanthropy, perspective
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    4947 likes

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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I have to return some videotapes”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    tags: american, bale, bret, christian, easton, ellis, funny, humor, psycho, return, videotapes
    459 likes

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    Henry James
    “Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!”
    ― Henry James, The Madonna of the Future
    tags: cats, human, life, monkeys
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    William Faulkner
    “Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
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    Bret Easton Ellis
    “I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.”
    ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
    tags: snow, snowflakes
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: eyre, jane
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    Luis Buñuel
    “A life without memory is no life at all”
    ― Luis Bunuel
    tags: life, luis-bunuel, memory, quote
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    Luis Buñuel
    “Thank God I'm an atheist!”
    ― Luis Bunuel
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: doubt, faith, god, prayer
    2484 likes

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    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House
    tags: humor, thinking
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    Agatha Christie
    “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”
    ― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    tags: instinct
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    Agatha Christie
    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Agatha Christie
    “Time is the best killer.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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  • #21
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
    ― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: motherhood
    2246 likes

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    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars
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    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs
    tags: intelligence
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  • #25
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
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    Reinaldo Arenas
    “I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living”
    ― Reinaldo Arenas
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    Jeffrey Archer
    “We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”
    ― Jeffrey Archer
    tags: jeffrey-archer, mistakes
    222 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: judgment
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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
    214 likes



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