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    Halldór Laxness
    “For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
    ― Halldór Laxness
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    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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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    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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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Jodi Picoult
    “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: imperfect, love
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
    tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories
    tags: despair, suicide
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    Joseph Conrad
    “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
    tags: supernatural-wicked
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
    ― Conrad Joseph
    tags: adversity, adversity-quotes, coping, face-your-fears, face-your-problems, inspirational
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.”
    ― Joseph Conrad
    tags: books, joseph-conrad
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    Joseph Conrad
    “You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear”
    ― Joseph Conrad
    tags: inspirational
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    Joseph Conrad
    “His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    ― Hemingway, Ernest
    tags: drinking
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    Milan Kundera
    “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, philosophy
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    Milan Kundera
    “The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Ignorance
    tags: memory, nostalgia, vocabulary
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    Milan Kundera
    “And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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