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#1

“I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

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#2

“In My Secret Life"

"I saw you this morning,
you were moving so fast.
Can't seem to loosen my grip
On the past.
And I miss you so much,
there's no one in sight.
And we're still making love
In my secret life.
I smile when I am angry,
I cheat and I lie,
I do what I have to do
to get by,
In my secret life.”
― Leonard Cohen

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#3

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: friendship

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#4

“If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

tags: sex, sexuality

695 likes

#5

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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#6

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6235 likes

#7

“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

tags: dance, silly

1882 likes

#8

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

3189 likes

#9

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world

8484 likes

#10

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: love, mercy

3742 likes

#11

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

tags: christmas

3126 likes

#12

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3451 likes

#13

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17087 likes

#14

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

3382 likes

#15

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

tags: living

1790 likes

#16

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

3224 likes

#17

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47059 likes

#18

“Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you have it, use your breath;
There is no drinking after death.”
― Ben Jonson

1629 likes

#19

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

1324 likes

#20

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

4612 likes

#21

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

3463 likes

#22

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

1833 likes

#23

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

tags: self-sacrifice

1963 likes

#24

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

3195 likes

#25

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

1605 likes

#26

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

1835 likes

#27

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough.”
― Ezra Pound

634 likes

#28

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

3564 likes

#29

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: imagination, immortality

1860 likes

#30

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

2060 likes

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