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#1

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

#2

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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#3

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

1959 likes

#4

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#5

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

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#6

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

2304 likes

#7

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#8

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

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#9

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1814 likes

#10

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

3322 likes

#11

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

tags: humanity, understanding, unity

1094 likes

#12

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

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#13

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

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#14

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#15

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3691 likes

#16

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5446 likes

#17

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

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#18

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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#19

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days

tags: dr-maturin, patrick-o-brian

1054 likes

#20

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: wish

4549 likes

#21

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

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#22

“It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

1409 likes

#23

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: love

5303 likes

#24

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: kiss, love, nature

2557 likes

#25

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

1741 likes

#26

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

1890 likes

#27

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

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#28