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#1

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#2

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#3

“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: inspirational

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#4

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

tags: desire, disatisfaction, life

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#5

“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#6

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: art

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#7

“It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#8

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love

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#9

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational

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#10

“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#11

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: identity

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#12

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#14

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#15

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#16

“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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#17

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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#18

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: words

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#19

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#20

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#21

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

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#22

“What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?”
― Freddie Mercury

tags: death, freddie, mercury, queen, true

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#23

“I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.”
― Freddie Mercury

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#24

“I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”
― Freddie Mercury

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#25

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: humor, science

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#26

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

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#27

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

9121 likes

#28

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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#29

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#30

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

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