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#1

“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
― Clive Barker

tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth

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#2

“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”
― Christopher Hampton, Total Eclipse

tags: l-existence-est-feroce, sucky-things, weltschmerz

131 likes

#3

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

tags: pp-11

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#4

“I is another.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#5

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

2648 likes

#6

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

107 likes

#7

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”
― Anne Sexton

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#8

“I burn the way money burns.”
― Anne Sexton

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#9

“Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”
― Shel Silverstein

1383 likes

#10

“So I'm all of love that could make it today.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

317 likes

#11

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

1102 likes

#12

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: gossip

376 likes

#13

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#14

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21576 likes

#15

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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