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    Elif Shafak
    “East, West, South or North makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey, a journey within. If you travel within, you’ll travel the whole wide world and beyond.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
    tags: the-forty-rules-of-love
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, humanity, sadness
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: blame, guilt
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: basil-hallward
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    Oscar Wilde
    “People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: advice
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    Oscar Wilde
    “But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dark, inspirational, macabre
    384 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: art, haunted, house, nature
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    Emily Dickinson
    “A great hope fell
    You heard no noise
    The ruin was within.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: hope
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    Donna Tartt
    “In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: donna-tartt, secret-history
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    Donna Tartt
    “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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    Franz Kafka
    “Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: age, wisdom
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
    tags: strength
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    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    Dante Alighieri
    “There is no greater sorrow
    Than to recall a happy time
    When miserable.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: dante, italian-medieval-poetry, nostalgia, à-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu
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    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection
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    Aleksandar Hemon
    “Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
    ― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
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    André Gide
    “There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
    ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: adam-gottbetter, attempt, attempts, great-things, impossible, little-things, nothing-is-impossible, small-things
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    1628 likes



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