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    Vera Nazarian
    “In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: clarity, clear, dark, disguise, glass, heart, hide, honest, honesty, kingdom, privacy, transparency, transparent
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    Confucius
    “If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: kingdom, morals, music
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    Vivian Amis
    “What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.”
    ― Vivian Amis, I AM: The Key to Manifesting
    tags: consciousness, death, ego, enlightenment, god, kingdom, life, light, self, spiritual, within
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    Rebecca K. Sampson
    “In another kingdom, her secrets wouldn't matter.”
    ― Rebecca K. Sampson, Ember Dragon Daughter
    tags: ember-dragon-daughter, fantasy-quotes, fantasy-ya, fantasy-young-adult, kingdom, princess-book, secrets, the-fated-tales-series
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  • #5
    “Don't fight over dead Kings and Queens.
    The Kings never fought for you.”
    ― Vineet Raj Kapoor
    tags: battle, chess, fight, king, kingdom, nation, paradox, queen, terrorist, war
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  • #6
    “I will not just love you till death.I will love you for eternity,this life and the next.”
    ― Duha Zanjabil
    tags: apart, couple, death, deep-thoughts, divided, eternity, life, love, love-quotes, lovers, marriage, mystical, obstacles, one, united
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
    tags: romanticism
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    Karoline von Günderrode
    “Let yourself live as you are without playing tricks on yourself, i.e., without trying to force yourself to love things that you cannot love.”
    ― Karoline von Günderrode
    tags: german-literature, philosophy, romanticism, self-love
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947
    tags: primitive, romanticism, woman
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    Lord Byron
    “Absence - that common cure of love.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: mind, scratch, timidity, wound
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    Lord Byron
    “Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be”
    ― George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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    Lord Byron
    “Happiness was born a twin.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: jealousy
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    Lord Byron
    “whom the god loves dies young”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “She is so good a person, that - that - in short, I wish I was a better.”
    ― Lord Byron
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  • #17
    “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
    ― André Berthiaume
    tags: masks, self
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Masquerades disclose the reality of souls. As long as no one sees who we are, we can tell the most intimate details of our life. I sometimes muse over this sketch of a story about a man afflicted by one of those personal tragedies born of extreme shyness who one day, while wearing a mask I don’t know where, told another mask all the most personal, most secret, most unthinkable things that could be told about his tragic and serene life. And since no outward detail would give him away, he having disguised even his voice, and since he didn’t take careful note of whoever had listened to him, he could enjoy the ample sensation of knowing that somewhere in the world there was someone who knew him as not even his closest and finest friend did. When he walked down the street he would ask himself if this person, or that one, or that person over there might not be the one to whom he’d once, wearing a mask, told his most private life. Thus would be born in him a new interest in each person, since each person might be his only, unknown confidant.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: masks, social-anxiety
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
    tags: peace, self-reliance
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
    tags: alone, leaving, loss, love
    267 likes

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    Joan Didion
    “Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
    ― Joan Didion, Blue Nights
    tags: alone, complain, time, whine, work
    297 likes

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    Toba Beta
    “There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: alone, lonely
    141 likes

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    Christopher Paolini
    “How terrible," said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to you."

    Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void.”
    ― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
    tags: alone, death, eragon
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: alone, antisocial, attitude, breakup, childish, childishness, complain, complaining, complexity, difficult-person, disregard, fail, fun, insult, insults, open-minded, peculiarity, people, rejection, remember, simplicity, snob, social-life, squabble, underate, underestimate, underestimation
    130 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I've come home in love with loneliness”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: alone
    162 likes

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    Patrick Süskind
    “People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
    ― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    tags: alone, solitude, want
    128 likes

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    Richard Brautigan
    “For fear you will be alone
    you do so many things
    that aren’t you at all.”
    ― Richard Brautigan
    tags: alone, loneliness
    59 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: alone, life, loneliness, strange
    49 likes

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    Daphne du Maurier
    “I don't mind. I like being alone.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
    tags: alone, rebecca
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
    3789 likes



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