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kate’s Quotes

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anais Nin

tags: civilization, inspiration, revolution

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“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

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“The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.”
― Molière

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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

tags: contradiction, truth

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Soundtracks for Books & Characters — 37 members — last activity Sep 18, 2018 06:40PM
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Transgressive Fiction — 1355 members — last activity Feb 26, 2026 12:59PM
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