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#1

“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

tags: books

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#2

“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: readers

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#3

“We are not written for one instrument alone; I am not, neither are you.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: relationships

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#4

“I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together--it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."

"But you're doing it now--in a way."

"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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#5

“And maybe we're all travelers
in search of significance
in search of solitude
in search of something inconceivable
in search of something fascinating
in search of our own treasure
in search of ourselves”
― Rania Naim, All The Words I Should Have Said

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#6

“I’m realizing it doesn’t really matter if we have a happy ending or not. We’re happy right now. That’s the important part, right?”
― Kheryn Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

tags: doesn-t-matter, happy, happy-ending, important, love, loving, relationship, relationships

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#7

“If you feel the need to do it - to write, or paint, or take photos or anything - then that’s what you have to do. That’s the one most important thing you can do. Because if you don’t, then there isn’t any point to anything, right? You’ve got to do it. You’ve got to keep writing.”
― Kheryn Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

tags: art, creative, expression, important, life, need, point, writing

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#8

“Maybe the way you love changes from person to person.”
― Kheryn Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

tags: change, changes, love, loving, people, person

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#9

“I don't really know what's worse: living without love so that you don't get hurt, or getting hurt repeatedly in an attempt to find it.”
― Kheryn Callender, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

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#10

“I want you to understand that what is black to one person is white to another. And nothing in this world is so perfect that it is pure white, or so bad it is pure black. Everything concerning human beings comes in shades of gray, Carrie.”
― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind

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#11

“I want you to be wise for your own sake, Stephen, because at the best life requires great wisdom. I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because – ’ He hesitated, ‘because you mayn’t find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

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#12

“People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

tags: sad-reality, shittiness, suck-it-up, true-to-life, understanding-others, why

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#13

“We're all weird and damaged in our own way. You're not the only one.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

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#14

“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.”
― Binyavanga Wainaina, One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir

tags: dreaming, inspirational, living

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#15

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide

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#16

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

4181 likes

#17

“I think reality is overrated.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

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#18

“You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!”
― Enid Blyton, Summer Term at St Clare's

tags: character, decisions, firm, honesty, judgement, motives, muddled

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#19

“in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book or other.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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#20

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: life, simplicity

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#21

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

tags: growing-up, inspirational, life

2166 likes

#22

“Someone once said that homosexuals have on their faces a certain loneliness that will not come off.”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors

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#23

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: living

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#24

“When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: astringent, satire

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#25

“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
― Anton Chekhov, The Complete Short Novels

tags: determination, hope, perseverance

280 likes

#26

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#27

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
― Katherine Mansfield

tags: moving-on, regret

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#28

“Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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#29

“The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

tags: daphne-dumaurier, my-cousin-rachel

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