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#1

“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.

The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.

And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Price of Spring

tags: cycle-of-life, death, renewal, seasons

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#2

“Tell me, Bronn. If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question?
Without question? No. The sellsword rubbed thumb and forefinger together. I'd ask how much.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#3

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: children

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#4

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

tags: animals, companions, friends, pets

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#5

“You end up becoming what you see in the eyes of those you love.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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#6

“My father had never liked tears. He thought a man never cried for others, only for himself. And if he did, he was a coward and deserved no pity.”
― Zafon Carlos Ruiz

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#7

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

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#8

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

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#9

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#10

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality

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“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

tags: animals, cruelty, goodness

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#12

“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ﬁnd no meaning.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski, charles-bukowski

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#13

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

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#14

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: beasts, charles-baudelaire, conversations, eat, eaten, heart, les-fleurs-du-mal, lost, poem, poetry, the-flowers-of-evil

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#15

“A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye

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#16

“Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?”
― Bruce Springsteen, Songs : Bruce Springsteen

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#17

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: beauty, humor, languages, poison

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#18

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#19

“Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

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#20

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration

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#21

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#22

“Per aspera ad astra...
Slutio sam da se za tu relaciju vadi povratna karta. Od samog pocetka nešto mi je bilo sumnjivo. Kad se dogodilo to što se dogodilo i kad sam krenuo na dugo putovanje nazad u svakodnevicu, pokušao sam sebi, kao razumnom coveku, da objasnim da je tako moralo biti, i da sve to sigurno ima i nekih dobrih strana.
Samo, još nisam otkrio ni jednu...
Nema veze, ne žurim. Svašta se prica po caršiji o znaku horoskopa pod kojim sam roden, ali jednu stvar niko ne može da nam ospori. Strpljenje...
Šta mu to ono dode? Osobina ili mana?”
― Đorđe Balašević, Tri posleratna druga

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#23

“When I Was One-And-Twenty

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.”
― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

tags: love, maturity, poetry, wisdom, youth

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#24

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

tags: bitten, broken, destroyed, entwine, federico-garcia-lorca, love, mouth, sonnet-of-the-garland-of-roses, soul

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#25

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

tags: abnormal, frankl, meaning, viktor

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#26

“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: archer-sloane, food-for-thought, life-lessons, self-acceptance, self-knowledge

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#27

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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#28

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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#29

“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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#30

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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