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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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 tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    Lord Byron
    “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Creeping Man
    tags: convenience, exigence, favor, friends, friendship
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
    Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
    (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
    ― Mary W. Shelley
    tags: consolation, mood, solitude
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    D.W. Winnicott
    “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”
    ― D.W. Winnicott
    tags: childhood, games, hidden-self, hide-and-seek, hiding, introversion, life, loneliness, self, solitude
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
    It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
    Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: longing, love
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning
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    Italo Calvino
    “I felt in harmony with the disharmony of others, myself, and the world.”
    ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
    tags: disharmony, dissatisfaction, harmony, yearning, zeitgeist
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
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    Sara Teasdale
    “Stephen kissed me in the spring,
    Robin in the fall,
    But Colin only looked at me
    And never kissed at all.

    Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest,
    Robin’s lost in play,
    But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
    Haunts me night and day.”
    ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems
    tags: kiss, love, memories, poetry
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    Franz Kafka
    “I didn’t want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923
    tags: afraid, body-dysmorphic-disorder, clothes, mirrors, ugliness
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: franz-kafka, letters-to-milena, longing, love-quotes
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: franz-kafka
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: life, live, sleep, tomorrow
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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Walter Benjamin
    “The work of memory collapses time.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
    tags: memory, time
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    Walter Benjamin
    “No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.”
    ― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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    Walter Benjamin
    “In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
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    Laurie Anderson
    “History is an angel being blown backwards into the future”
    ― Laurie Anderson
    tags: history, song-lyrics, walter-benjamin
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