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  • #1
    Paulo Coelho
    “Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”
    Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

  • #2
    Alice Sebold
    “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
    Alice Sebold

  • #3
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #5
    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #6
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #7
    Sloane Crosley
    “Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. ”
    Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
    tags: life

  • #8
    André Aciman
    “Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I meant to say was: I thought you hated me. I was hoping you’d persuade me of the opposite—and you did, for a while. Why won’t I believe it tomorrow morning?
    André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
    tags: love

  • #9
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #10
    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    William Blake

  • #11
    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #12
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

  • #13
    Darlene Craviotto
    “Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.”
    Darlene Craviotto, An Agoraphobic's Guide to Hollywood: How Michael Jackson Got Me Out of the House

  • #14
    Susan Cain
    “...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
    Susan Cain



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