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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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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
    ― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont
    tags: misattributed-to-a-a-milne
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    Vera Nazarian
    “When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.

    It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.

    And sometimes it is enough.”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: beauty, crescent, hope, lavender, moon
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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    ― Zelda Fitzgerald
    tags: love
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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    ― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]
    tags: hope, sun
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    Gayle Forman
    “Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.”
    ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
    tags: death
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    James Frey
    “Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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    James Frey
    “When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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    Sarah Kane
    “Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot fucking go on without expressing this terrible so fucking awful physical aching fucking longing I have for you. And I cannot believe that I can feel this for you and you feel nothing. Do you feel nothing?”
    ― Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
    tags: 4-48-psychosis, ache, love, sadnes
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    “I love you and it's getting worse.”
    ― Joseph Morris
    tags: devotion, humor, love
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    James Frey
    “Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
    Stay.
    Fight.
    Live.
    Take it.”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: just-litsen, sarah-dessen, time
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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    Catullus
    “I hate and I love
    Why do I, you ask ?
    I don't know, but it's happening
    and it hurts”
    ― Catullus
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    Augusten Burroughs
    “I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
    ― Augusten Burroughs, Dry
    tags: loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Andrea Gibson
    “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
    they're falling in love with the ground.”
    ― Andrea Gibson
    tags: autumn, love
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    “I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”
    ― Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    tags: emotions, sadness
    285 likes



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