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    Margaret George
    “So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”
    ― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra
    tags: cleopatra, epiphany, fiction, journey, life, loss, love, relationships
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chance, happiness, risk
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: identity
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: unique
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: addiction, addicts
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    Homer
    “Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
    ― Homer, Iliad
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    Homer
    “You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: classics, family, greece, insult
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    Homer
    “Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: antilochus-the-iliad
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    Joseph Bédier
    “Fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our souls go free at last. Take me to that happy place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return, but where great singers sing their songs forever.”
    ― Joseph Bedier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
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    Michel Faber
    “A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.”
    ― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White
    tags: destiny, lazy, soul
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    Michel Faber
    “I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.”
    ― Michel Faber
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Anne Rice
    “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Witching Hour
    tags: aliteracy, bibliophiles, book-lovers, willful-ignorance, zealotry
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    Anne Rice
    “It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.”
    ― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned
    tags: the-vampire-chronicles
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    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    ― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben
    tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Ryū Murakami
    “Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife, an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you”
    ― Ryu Murakami
    tags: in-the-miso-soup
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    “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
    but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
    I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
    well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
    ― Rebecca Katherine Martin
    tags: bizarre, feel, flawed, hope, imgaine, know, misattributed-frida-kahlo, people, person, read, strangest, think-strange, thought, world
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    Haruki Murakami
    “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: loneliness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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    Michel Foucault
    “...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.”
    ― Michel Foucault
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning. How could one not wish for that with all one's heart? How could one not lend one's feeble resources to bringing it about?”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: inspirational
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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