Quotes - Sreejib (Kolkata, India) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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#2

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: forever, sadness, van-gogh, vincent-van-goghogh

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#3

“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

tags: kiss, lips, secret

1407 likes

#4

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32143 likes

#5

“Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.”
― Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

tags: poetry, self

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#6

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: psychology, thoughts

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#7

“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: love

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#8

“I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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#9

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#10

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

32111 likes

#11

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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#12

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#13

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

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#14

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

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#15

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

tags: equality, feminism, women

539 likes

#16

“The world,” Aelin said, “will be saved and remade by the dreamers, Rolfe.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

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#17

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: reality

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#18

“She had a lot of hugs to give, but not enough people to give them to.”
― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

tags: hugs

45 likes

#19

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#20

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”
― Pablo Picasso

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#21

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#22

“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”
― Hélène Cixous

tags: people

90 likes

#23

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

16024 likes

#24

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

tags: books, reading

2356 likes

#25

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: will-herondale

4754 likes

#26

“They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
"It is because they have never seen you," he says. "I would recognize you anywhere.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

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