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#1

“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard

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#2

“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: sympathy

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#3

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

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#4

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#5

“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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#6

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#7

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#8

“An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.”
― Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

tags: criticism, writing

96 likes

#9

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

tags: conservation, nature, wilderness

161 likes

#10

“Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

tags: hope

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#11

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

3098 likes

#12

“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

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#13

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
― Poppy Z. Brite

tags: insomnia, night, sleep

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