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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works of art, existences full of secrets whose life continues alongside ours, while ours is transitory.”
    ― Rainier Marie Rilke
    tags: art, letters-to-a-young-poet, poetry, writing
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    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    ― Walt Whitman
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude
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    Langston Hughes
    “Sometimes a crumb falls
    From the tables of joy,
    Sometimes a bone
    Is flung.

    To some people
    Love is given,
    To others
    Only heaven.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: luck
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    Elizabeth Bishop
    “The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seemed filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
    ― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
    From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
    Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
    Then I walked outside.”
    ― Rumi, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi
    tags: identity, inner-life, inner-self, other
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    “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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    “When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

    --from WHEN DEATH COMES”
    ― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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    H. Havelock Ellis
    “The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
    ― Havelock Ellis
    tags: havelock-ellis
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: life, sanity
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    Kelly Moran
    “I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
    ― Kelly Moran
    tags: author-quotes, happily-ever-after, love, romance-author, writer-quotes
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    Donald Barthelme
    “Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable…

    …a lot of people don’t like things that are unearthly, the things of this earth are good enough for them, and they don’t mind telling you so. “If he’d just go out and get a job, like everybody else, then he could be saintly all day long…”

    —from “The Temptations of St. Anthony,” by Donald Barthelme”
    ― Donald Barthelme, Sadness
    tags: fiction, humor, sainthood, short-story
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    Donald Barthelme
    “The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.”
    ― Donald Barthelme, Sadness
    tags: marriage
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    Deborah Eisenberg
    “Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, 'family!' Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder..."
    "Well," William said brightly, "and sex.”
    ― Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
    tags: better-otto, some-other
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    Lillian Hellman
    “People change and forget to tell each other.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
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    Kathleen Maher
    “(Via Malcolm)"...For the moment, I have this incredible gift...It just happened. I bend, whisper, sing, shout—and a radiant light surrounds and then emanates from people.”
    ― Kathleen Maher, Diary of a Heretic
    tags: humor, inspirational, reluctant
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    Kathleen Maher
    “A dismal omen: ...this morning a woman handed me a dollar bill that was translucent from age, as soft and warm as living tissue.”
    ― Kathleen Maher, Diary of a Heretic
    tags: bakery-owner, reluctant-cult-leader
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Witticisms of Oscar Wilde;
    tags: being-misunderstood, dangerous-honesty, social-interaction
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    Thomas Bernhard
    “Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
    ― Thomas Bernhard, Correction
    tags: funny, humor, inspirational
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    Kathleen Maher
    “I have not looked at Carlos since the meeting...Being around him is like walking around with the flu...The need to lie down in a darkened room and let my hatred of him run through me is almost insurmountable.”
    ― Kathleen Maher, Diary of a Heretic
    tags: dark-humor, hate-to-love
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    Kathleen Maher
    “...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm”
    ― Kathleen Maher, Diary of a Heretic
    tags: cult-technique, fiction, indie, irreverent-humor, spiritual
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    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
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    Diann Shaddox
    “Life must not be only envisioned through others eyes
    it must be envisioned through your own eyes.”
    ― Diann Shaddox, A Faded Cottage
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: fun, transformation, wonder, writing
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    W.H. Auden
    “Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
    ― W.H. Auden
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    Tom Waits
    “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
    ― Tom Waits
    tags: books, literature, writing
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    645 likes



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