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"This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely."
— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)

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"and for every statement I make to you pointing out that or any view point, I can give you twenty two more all in conflict with one another. They all belong to me and none of them belongs to me."
— The troops for Trudie Chase

tags: contridiction, illness, insanity, mental, multiple
2 people liked it

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

tags: life
610 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,601 people liked it

"Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind."
— Matthew Prior (The poetical works of Matthew Prior)

126 people liked it

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

tags: life
210 people liked it

"I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept."
— Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere)

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"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time."
— Neil Gaiman

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"It begins, as most things begin, with a song."
— Neil Gaiman

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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t."
— Erica Jong

tags: advice
40 people liked it

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
— Erica Jong

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"My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live."
— Erica Jong

tags: porn
18 people liked it

"Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell."
— Erica Jong

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"The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did."
— Erica Jong

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"The truth will make you odd."
— Judy Blume

tags: truth
56 people liked it

"Snoring keeps the monsters away."
— Judy Blume (Fudge-a-Mania)

tags: humor, snoring
51 people liked it

"You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."

"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything."
— Judy Blume (Summer Sisters)

13 people liked it

"Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn."
— Judy Blume (Summer Sisters)

11 people liked it

"As it has been said
Love and a cough cannot be concealed
Even a small cough
Even a small love"
— Anne Sexton

tags: poetry
47 people liked it

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
— Anne Sexton

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"As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off."
— Anne Sexton

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"I am God, la de dah."
— Anne Sexton (The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton)

tags: confessional, poetry
25 people liked it

"Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen."
— Anne Sexton

9 people liked it

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
— Anne Sexton

17 people liked it

"I burn the way money burns."
— Anne Sexton

8 people liked it

""Rats live on no evil star""
— Anne Sexton

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"O starry night, This is how I want to die"
— Anne Sexton (The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton)

8 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
425 people liked it

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

218 people liked it

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: neurosis
171 people liked it

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: death, peace
370 people liked it

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
— Sylvia Plath

128 people liked it

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: god
99 people liked it

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: depression, silence
97 people liked it

"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

64 people liked it

"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: writing
107 people liked it

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath

114 people liked it

"They might not need me; but they might.
I'll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: a-smile-as-small-as-mine
23 people liked it

"I tasted life."
— Emily Dickinson

12 people liked it

"We were all very friendly but we were like 4 monarchs each doing their own thing."
— Emily Dickinson

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"Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: poem
19 people liked it

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life
331 people liked it

"But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
— George Orwell (1984)

5 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,504 people liked it

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
448 people liked it

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
399 people liked it

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophy
243 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
405 people liked it

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

242 people liked it

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

274 people liked it

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