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#1

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi

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#2

“It was her favorite story, that she remembers, but she would be hard-pressed to retell it now, faithfully, as it had been told to her. All she could recall were frayed, sleep-watered images of a forgotten castle in the middle of a wild forest, stone statues, crimson roses, and a dark, animal presence never seen, but which stained her memory of the tale, even past its edges to the daylight after.”
― Ava Zavora, Belle Noir: Tales of Love and Magic

tags: beauty-and-the-beast, fantasy

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#3

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#4

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words

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#5

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

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#6

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

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#7

“...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. Lace is a thing like hope. It lived, it survived, and it was desired for what it was not. If faith, as the nuns said, was the substance of things hoped for, then lace was the outline - the suggestion - of things not seen.”
― Iris Anthony, The Ruins of Lace

tags: faith, hope, lace

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#8

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

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#9

“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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#10

“I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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#11

“The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.”
― Alison MacLeod, Wave Theory of Angels

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#12

“The heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way. The mind may be what's best, but I don't give a shit what my mind is telling me anymore. Right now, I just want to live in the moment.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

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#13

“Me, a tease? I am not. I put out...thank you very much.

- Jamie Killian”
― J.L. Langley, The Tin Star

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#14

“I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.”
― Lisa See, Peony in Love

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#15

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#16

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#17

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#18

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: loneliness, passion

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#19

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy

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#20

“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: women

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#21

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

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#22

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.”
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

tags: compulsive-liars, deceit, liar, lies, pathological-liars, trust

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#23

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely

tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom

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#24

“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

tags: love, pain, reality

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#25

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#26

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

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#27

“I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

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#28

“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
― Julie de Lespinasse

tags: heartache, love, passion, relationships, romance

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#29

“Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty,”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#30

“I shall always remember how the peacocks’ tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks…”
― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East

tags: alchemy, mermaids, peacock, visions

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