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#1

“When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. a”
― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

tags: love, poetry, sonnet-xxix

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#2

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom

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#3

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#4

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

tags: doctrine, equal-rights, freedom, liberty, morality, rights

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#5

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
― Stella Adler

tags: affirmation, art, creativity

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#6

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: cruelty, honesty

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#7

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: life, money

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#8

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

tags: alternative-facts, free-speech, freedom, freedom-of-thought, lies, lies-politics

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#9

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

tags: freedom

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#10

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

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#11

“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: belonging, death, home, outsider

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#12

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

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#13

“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#14

“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.”
― Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

tags: books, censorship

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#15

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

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#16

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality

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#17

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: hope, inevitability, spring

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#18

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: contrast, life, opposites, summer, winter

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#19

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: lost-innocence, memories

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#20

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: happy, sebastian, summer, teddy-bear

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#21

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: drinking

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#22

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: humor, intimacy, sexual

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#23

“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

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#24

“Give us this day our daily mask.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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#25

“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

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#26

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

tags: beauty, english, literature, summer

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#27

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#28

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#29

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings

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#30

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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