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#1

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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#2

“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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#3

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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#4

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#5

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

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#6

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

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#7

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

5756 likes

#8

“If you lose your temper, you lose!”
― Richard Diaz

tags: emotional-control, losing, serenity, temper, winning

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#9

“I hate to lose more than I love to win.”
― Jimmy Connors

tags: winning

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#10

“What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#11

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

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#12

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#13

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

2369 likes

#14

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7668 likes

#15

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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#16

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

2609 likes

#17

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#18

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

tags: courage, reputation

2551 likes

#19

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

39882 likes

#20

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

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#21

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships

9730 likes

#22

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

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#23

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

3509 likes

#24

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3588 likes

#25

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: gender

1490 likes

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