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    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: loneliness, music, refuge
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “Butterflies and zebras
    and moonbeams and fairy tales,
    That's all she ever thinks about,
    Riding with the wind.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: daydreams, dreams, fantasies, fantasy, imagination, innocence
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    Bob Dylan
    “No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke,
    There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.”
    ― Bob Dylan
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    Rosa Parks
    “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
    ― Rosa Parks
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    Banksy
    “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
    ― Banksy, Wall and Piece
    tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules
    781 likes

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    Julio Cortázar
    “Creo que no te quiero, que solamente quiero la imposibilidad tan obvia de quererte. Como el guante izquierdo enamorado de la mano derecha.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
    tags: love
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Creo que no te quiero, que solamente quiero la imposibilidad tan obvia de quererte como la mano izquierda enamorada de ese guante que vive en la derecha.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
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