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  • #61
    Arundhati Roy
    “Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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  • #62
    Arundhati Roy
    “Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening”
    ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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  • #63
    Umera Ahmed
    “What is next to ecstasy?
    Pain.
    What is next to pain?
    Nothingness.
    What is next to nothingness?
    Hell.”
    ― Umera Ahmed
    tags: ecstasy, hell, nothingness, pain, peer-e-kamil
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  • #64
    Umera Ahmed
    “Allah Ki Mohabbat Ke Siwa, Har Mohabbat Ko Zawal Hai.
    Rab Ki Mohabbat Ke Illawa Duniya Ki Koi Mohabbat Sachi Nahi,
    Aur Rab Asliyat Dekha Deta Hai. Har Rishte, Har Mohabbat Ki.
    Phir Wo Sab Kuch Dekha Ker Adami Se Kehta Hai,
    "Ab Bata Tera Mere Siwa Kon Hai?”
    ― Umera Ahmed, Shahr E Zaat/شہر ذات
    tags: shehr-e-zaat
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  • #65
    Umera Ahmed
    “الله کی محبّت کے سوا ہر محبّت کو زوال ہے”
    ― Umera Ahmed, Shahr E Zaat/شہر ذات
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  • #66
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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  • #67
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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  • #68
    Albert Camus
    “I've been thinking it over for years. While we
    loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't
    love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only
    I couldn't." - Grant”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: albert-camus, grant, the-plague
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  • #69
    Albert Camus
    “I’m waiting for you, I’m waiting for the evening calm, I’m waiting for our time, the oblique light, this pause between day and night. Peace will come, surely. But I can imagine no other peace than that of our two bodies bound together, of our gaze given over to each other - I have no other homeland but you.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #70
    “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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  • #71
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: arrow, heart, inej, romance, suli-poverb
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  • #72
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
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  • #73
    John Joseph Powell
    “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
    ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
    tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames
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  • #74
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #75
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: compassion, life, suffering
    20131 likes

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  • #76
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #77
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #78
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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  • #79
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
    4572 likes

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  • #80
    Dante Alighieri
    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality
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  • #81
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
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  • #82
    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-105
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  • #83
    Dante Alighieri
    “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: aging, impatience, time, wisdom
    512 likes

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  • #84
    Dante Alighieri
    “Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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  • #85
    Dante Alighieri
    “They yearn for what they fear for.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: 123, canto-iii, inferno
    362 likes

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  • #86
    Susanna Clarke
    “The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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  • #87
    Susanna Clarke
    “There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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  • #88
    Susanna Clarke
    “It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted.
    And I am comforted.”
    ― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
    tags: comfort
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  • #89
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
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  • #90
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
    11906 likes



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