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    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
    tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
    tags: relationships
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    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: absurd
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Sarah Hepola
    “Sometimes I felt like I was living on an island, where all I did was hope a friend would float by, and when they finally arrived, I began to wonder when they'd go away.”
    ― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend...I shall not leave you.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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  • #10
    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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  • #11
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: sadness, tears
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, love, rose
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
    tags: the-little-prince
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #17
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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  • #18
    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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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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  • #22
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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  • #23
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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  • #26
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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  • #27
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #29
    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    ― James A. Baldwin
    tags: love
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  • #30
    Leonard Cohen
    “If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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