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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”
    Jane Austen , Persuasion

  • #2
    Nicholas Sparks
    “We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #3
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #4
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

  • #6
    Henry Miller
    “I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
    Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #13
    Ayn Rand
    “Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #14
    Ayn Rand
    “She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #15
    Ayn Rand
    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #16
    Kahlil Gibran
    “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

  • #17
    Alan W. Watts
    “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
    Alan Watts

  • #18
    Kahlil Gibran
    “The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.
    Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #19
    Franny Billingsley
    “I don't like my shoes,' said Rose.
    'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.'
    'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.'
    How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?”
    Franny Billingsley, Chime

  • #20
    Gemma Burgess
    “That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.”
    Gemma Burgess A Girl Like You

  • #21
    Franz Kafka
    “My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #22
    Ayn Rand
    “To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
    Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

  • #24
    Randall Munroe
    “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.”
    Randall Munroe, xkcd: volume 0

  • #25
    A.A. Milne
    “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
    A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #27
    “Holding back sucks. Whats more depressing is, you don't know how long you will have to wait for juz a simple gesture- to SHARE!”
    Tripti K

  • #28
    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

  • #29
    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    Colette

  • #30
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe



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