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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    James Baldwin
    “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
    ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
    tags: fear, hate, pain
    3214 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
    Carl Jung
    Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: evil, sadism
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    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
    ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
    tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time
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    J.K. Rowling
    “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends
    32105 likes

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  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Matthew Quick
    “I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.”
    ― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
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    S.E. Hinton
    “He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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    W.H. Auden
    “Evil is unspectacular and always human,
    And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
    ― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
    tags: evil, familiarity
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  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
    tags: evil, violence
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld
    tags: disguises, secret
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    Mark Twain
    “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #14
    “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”
    ― James Anthony Froude
    tags: cousins
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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    Tom Stoppard
    “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: stoppard
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    Anatole France
    “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
    ― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
    tags: inspirational
    418 likes

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    Ayn Rand
    “We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: equality, humanity, skin
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    Sigmund Freud
    “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    tags: mortal, secret
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    Matthew Quick
    “I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do.
    I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.”
    ― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
    tags: angst, depression, fate, resigned, suicidal-thoughts, suicide, teenage-angst
    244 likes

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  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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  • #23
    S.E. Hinton
    “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don’t think he knows.”
    ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
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  • #24
    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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  • #25
    “There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”
    ― Kingman Brewster Jr.
    tags: anger, hope, hopelessness, relief
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  • #26
    Patrick Ness
    “You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It is the most human wish of all.”
    ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
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  • #27
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
    2306 likes

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  • #28
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
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    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    ― Washington Irving
    1015 likes



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