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#1

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

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#2

“For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.”
― Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love

tags: coldness, desire, emotion, neutrality, sentiment, sex

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#3

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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#4

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

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#5

“It's your road, and yours alone.
others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.”
― Rumi

tags: life-and-living

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#6

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
― Emile Zola

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#7

“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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#8

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#9

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, scars, tyler-durden

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#10

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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#11

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

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#12

“Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

tags: forward, fulfillment, growth, happiness, innovation, movement, progress

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#13

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

tags: expectations, image, self-image

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#14

“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#15

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#16

“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
― George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

tags: hypocrisy, man, shooting-an-elephant

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#17

“I only swim in deep waters. If you want to test my waters, you better know how to swim.”
― Lebo Grand

tags: daring, deep-love, deep-soul, depth, desire, ecstasy, intoxication, passion, sensuality

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#18

“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

tags: conviction, dedication, determination, fortitude, obstinacy, perserverance, resolve, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, stubbornness, willpower

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#19

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

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#20

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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#21

“There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

tags: all, books, dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, resolution, resolve, secrets, the-sun-watches-the-sun, wisdom

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#22

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

tags: boys, rain, summer

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#23

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#24

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

tags: calm, character, death, dissociation, resolve

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#25

“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: honor, inspiration

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#26

“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: death, life, philosophy

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#27

“She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.”
― James Salter, Light Years

tags: growth, self-reliance, solitude

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#28

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”
― Osho

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#29

“I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: echo, self

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#30

“Some shoot for the stars. I shoot for the transdimensional multiverse. That’s me. I take things too far, too fast. I set my personal bar high. I didn’t come to try in this world. I came to conquer this world – and the next”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

tags: aaron-kyle-andresen, confidence, conquer, fox0r, power, resolve, strength, vindication

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