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    Sylvia Plath
    “I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: life, live, sleep, tomorrow
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: honesty
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and i’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Bill Hicks
    “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
    ― Bill Hicks
    tags: humour, philosophy
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    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Election
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby
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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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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
    tags: letters, writing
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Eric Roth
    “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
    ― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
    tags: life, missed-chances, opportunities
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
    tags: fantasy, feyre, new-adult, romance, tamlin
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    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
    tags: loneliness, people, scared, world
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: conversations, distractions, imagination, quiet, solitude
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
    ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    tags: dream
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    Hugh Laurie
    “It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
    ― Hugh Laurie
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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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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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  • #29
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?
    In a minute there is time
    For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: life, poetry
    2047 likes



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