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  • #1
    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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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: life
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
    2604 likes

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  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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  • #7
    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
    tags: inner-nature, wild-horse
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  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
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  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: women-rebel
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor, seriousness
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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: america
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, benevolence, epigram, reputation
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  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is too short to learn German”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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  • #18
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: friendship, love
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  • #22
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: kindness
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  • #23
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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  • #24
    Hanya Yanagihara
    “What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: books
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  • #25
    W.S. Merwin
    “Through all of youth I was looking for you
    without knowing what I was looking for”
    ― W.S. Merwin
    tags: youth
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  • #26
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: answers, love, true, universe
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  • #28
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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  • #29
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: pain, storm, summer
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  • #30
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
    ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
    tags: boys, rain, summer
    2050 likes



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