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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, letters, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    John Keats
    “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
    ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
    tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three
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    Donna Tartt
    “Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
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    Donna Tartt
    “For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: inspiration
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    ― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    tags: dread
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: life
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Tolstoy Leo
    tags: inspirational
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    Lord Byron
    “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: laughter, medicine
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    Lord Byron
    “The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    Agatha Christie
    “Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”
    ― Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1), The
    tags: broken-dreams, failure, failures, goals, heartbreak, rejection, rejections
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    Agatha Christie
    “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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    Charles Dickens
    “You have been the last dream of my soul.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: kindness
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: books
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: lost-innocence, memories
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
    3502 likes



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