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    Urania Sarri
    “Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before. ”
    ― Urania Sarri, Gate Deadlock
    tags: happiness
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    Philip K. Dick
    “The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. ”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “He had come so far from himself that I don't
    think he knew who he was anymore.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “….watch me rise like smoke from fire.

    Watch me fly above your hate.

    Watch me dance upon your meanness
    like a ballerina with posture; grace.

    Watch me laugh over your hatred;
    watch me soar above your sea of grief.

    And know that I am out there somewhere…

    C R U S H I N G.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “I’ll dream up a world where you never existed. A world you could never live in. I’ll live there without you.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
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    Will Self
    “Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”
    ― Will Self
    tags: ideas, journals, memory, notebook, writing
    135 likes

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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
    tags: humility
    69 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”
    ― Anais Nin, A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 3
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “Your psychotic behavior and constant temper tantrums intrigue me.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
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    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    ― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
    6420 likes

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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
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    Joseph Joubert
    “The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
    ― Joseph Joubert
    tags: books, reading
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
    2254 likes

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    Tabitha Suzuma
    “He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.”
    ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
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    “Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?”
    ― JoAnne Kenrick, When A Mullo Loves A Woman
    tags: contemporary, gypsy, liverpool, mullo, mulo, mystery, paranormal-romance, past-lives, reincarnation, soul-mates, suspense, vampire, when-a-mullo-loves-a-woman
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    Quinn Loftis
    “His mate is the light that keeps that darkness at bay. She fills the hole that has been growing ever larger in his soul. When the bond is completed between mates, their very souls merge and the male will be able to leash the darker part of his nature and at last be at peace with his wolf.”
    ― Quinn Loftis, Blood Rites
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    Iimani David
    “Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.”
    ― Iimani David
    tags: inspiration, life, life-lessons
    134 likes

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    Roman Payne
    “The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: art, artistic, creativity, equations, gifts, ideas, inspiration, literature, math, mathematical, mathematics, muse, muses, mysteries, mystery, payne, sleep, sleeping, waking
    166 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Arthur Miller
    “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
    ― Arthur Miller
    tags: betrayal, friendship, reality
    624 likes

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  • #31
    William Blake
    “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: betrayal, disappointment
    3565 likes



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