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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: today
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    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: burroughs, change, escape, inspirational
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  • #11
    Ayn Rand
    “If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: excess, over-indulgence, overdoing
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    Ayn Rand
    “I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality
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    Ayn Rand
    “I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: love, obsession, selfish-love
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  • #14
    Ayn Rand
    “It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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  • #15
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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  • #17
    “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
    ― Lady Gaga
    tags: love, romance, work
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Javier Marías
    “People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.”
    ― Javier Marias
    tags: marriage
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  • #20
    Socrates
    “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #21
    Pablo Neruda
    “I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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  • #22
    John Knowles
    “Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.”
    ― John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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  • #23
    Jack Kerouac
    “it's all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
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    Melvin Burgess
    “Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away...”
    ― Melvin Burgess, Smack
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
    ― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
    tags: doors, huxley, perception
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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
    tags: depression, sadness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
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    Charles Bukowski
    “the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
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