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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
― Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire

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#3

“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

tags: breath, existence

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#4

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#5

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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#6

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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#7

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: opportunity

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#8

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

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#9

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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#10

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

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#11

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#12

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

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#13

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: dance, dancing, definition, innuendo, sex, widely-misattributed, wordplay

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#14

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

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#15

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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#16

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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#17

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#18

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

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#19

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#20

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

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#21

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#22

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

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#23

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#24

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

tags: community

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#25

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

tags: hope

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#26

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

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#27

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

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#28

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

tags: art

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#29

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

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#30

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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