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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances
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    Vladimir Mayakovsky
    “A line is a fuse
    that's lit.
    The line smolders,
    the rhyme explodes—
    and by a stanza
    a city
    is blown to bits.”
    ― Vladimir Mayakovsky
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    Frida Kahlo
    “I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    John Gardner
    “When I was a child I truly loved:
    Unthinking love as calm and deep
    As the North Sea. But I have lived,
    And now I do not sleep.”
    ― John Gardner, Grendel
    tags: disappointment, experience, life, love, maturity
    145 likes

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    Ovid
    “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
    ― Ovid, Heroides
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    José Rizal
    “A lie among the stars
    Is a comfortable lie.”
    ― José Rizal, El Filibusterismo
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    W.B. Yeats
    “WINE comes in at the mouth
    And love comes in at the eye;
    That's all we shall know for truth
    Before we grow old and die.
    I lift the glass to my mouth,
    I look at you, and sigh.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    ― Confucius
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    David Eddings
    “The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.”
    ― David Eddings, Crystal Gorge
    tags: camping, nature, night, outdoors, snoring, stars
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Will Shortz
    “As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”
    ― Will Shortz
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    José Rizal
    “One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”
    ― Jose Rizal
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  • #16
    “The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”
    ― R. Lutece
    tags: bioshock
    44 likes

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    Kim Harrison
    “Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”
    ― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon
    tags: growing-up
    287 likes

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    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    ― August Wilson
    tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength
    4207 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “If my Valentine you won't be,
    I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems
    tags: christmas, christmas-tree, felo-de-se, hanging, suicide, valentine, valentine-s-day
    271 likes

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    José Rizal
    “Walang mang-aalipin kung walang paaalipin.”
    ― José Rizal, El Filibusterismo
    58 likes

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    Max DePree
    “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.”
    ― Max Depree, Leadership Is an Art
    tags: inspirational, leadership
    121 likes

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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
    tags: mycology
    12 likes

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  • #26
    “To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'.”
    ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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    Horatius
    “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
    ― Horace
    tags: be-strong, be-yourself, independence, inspiration, inspirational, life, living, rule, self-help, stay-strong, strength, the-mind
    249 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
    2837 likes

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    Confucius
    “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: foolishness, other-people
    1426 likes

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  • #30
    Thomas Carlyle
    “Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness”
    ― Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
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