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#1

“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
― Anais Nin

tags: humanity

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#2

“all which isn't singing is merely talking
and all talking's talking to oneself
(whether that oneself be sought or seeking
master or disciple sheep or wolf)”
― ee cummings, Poems - Gedichte

tags: poetry

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#3

“Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.”
― Stephen Schwartz

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#4

“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...”
― Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

tags: bird, civilization, compassion, contempt, man, time, tree

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#5

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
― Colette

tags: creativity, self-help-book, words-of-wisdom

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#6

“As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

tags: writing

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#7

“I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.”
― Hélène Cixous, Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous

tags: cixous, feminism, philosophy, wellbeing

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#8

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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#9

“Funny how you never hear novelists or painters say they work in the 'creative industries', but only squalid little advertising people. How could this be? (.....)

If you listen to advertisers, you'd think they're the fucking Oracle and that for a fee they'll slip you the Answer. They are obsessed with being seen as 'creative', but what they do seems rather to be 'parasitical' : pinching cultural innovations and using them to persuade people that they want stuff. So there's a dilemma for us all to think 'creatively' about.”
― Steve Lowe, The Best of Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?

tags: humour

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#10

“It's remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow, passing the window of the liquor store, which offers an array of bottles surrounded by tiny blinking lights,; seeing her own reflection skim across the glass; being, once again, able to recieve the ordinary pleasures, boots on the pavement, hands in the pockets of her jacket...”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

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#11

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#12

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry

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#13

“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
― Dylan Thomas

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#14

“Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters.”
― Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power: Secrets of World Control

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#15

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: wisdom

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#16

“Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: absurd, absurdity, anti-absurdity, art, bi, bipolar, create, creativity, design, dual, duality, energy, fashion-designer, karl-lagerfeld, originality, style, unique, uniqueness

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#17

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow

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#18

“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

tags: friends, silence

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#19

“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch

tags: compassion, empathy, pride, selfishness

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#20

“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: democracy, politics, voting

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#21

“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: america, freedom, image, impressions, peace, war

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#22

“Fear of “the other” may be an animating force for many supporters of far-right parties, but “inclusion” of the other within an inherently unjust system will not be powerful enough to defeat those forces.”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

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#23

“People will think you brilliant
only if you tell them what they know.
To avoid being thought brilliant,
avoid knowing what they know.
Write to discover to yourself
what you know.

Anarchism is Not Enough”
― Laura Riding

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#24

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

tags: fear

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#25

“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”
― Angela Carter, Wise Children

tags: past

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#26

“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.
To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed.
This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

tags: fairy-tales, women

60 likes

#27

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

tags: courage, life

4312 likes

#28

“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”
― Anais Nin

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#29

“I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…
it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love…
a man, a woman, what have you…
it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.”
― Al Pacino, Al Pacino

tags: bisexual, gays, lesbian, love

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#30

“Here they are, this once-prosperous couple, shocked, altered, dragged before the seat of the conqueror who'd promised it was only the servants and petty thieves who'd suffer.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

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