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    Shaun Hick
    “I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: destiny, distance, journey, life, life-s-journey, living-in-the-moment, nowhere, purpose, ride, seize-the-day, spontaneity, travel
    118 likes

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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
    174705 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    ― Diana Nyad
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    Lionel Shriver
    “Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
    tags: change, here, nowhere, there
    59 likes

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    Dejan Stojanovic
    “We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.”
    ― Dejan Stojanovic
    tags: conquer, dejan-stojanovic, far-away, fertilize, home, literature, literature-quotes, nowhere, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, stop, tired
    29 likes

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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
    12617 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
    tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality
    2750 likes

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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: loneliness, society, solitude
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
    I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
    ― jonathan safran foer
    tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude
    3104 likes

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    A.B. Shepherd
    “I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.”
    ― A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon
    tags: confusion, delusion, hallucination, reality
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    129385 likes

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    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams
    tags: night, poetry
    7825 likes

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    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
    tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
    8427 likes

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    Robert Browning
    “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.”
    ― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
    tags: music, power-of-music, solitude
    1072 likes

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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: words
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
    4273 likes

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    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: dna, noise, self, soul, symphony
    765 likes

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    Forugh Farrokhzad
    “همه می ترسند
    همه می ترسند
    اما من و تو
    به چراغ و اب و آینه پیوستیم و نترسیدیم”
    ― فروغ فرّخ‌زا�
    tags: فروغ-من
    182 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
    21992 likes

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    Ally Condie
    “It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
    ― Ally Condie, Matched
    tags: memory, nostalgia
    1301 likes

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

    [Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
    tags: autumn, nature, sunshine
    571 likes

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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
    1909 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “I want my words to illuminate like the sun, as I give my daily lecture on photosynthesis to my houseplants.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Want
    66 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: admiration, anna-karenina, avoiding, flattery, gaze, love, stare, sun, tolstoy
    261 likes

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    David Gemmell
    “It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
    It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
    Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.”
    ― David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm
    tags: anger, emotion, life, philosophy, sun
    91 likes

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    Shaun Hick
    “You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
    ― Shaun Hick
    tags: appreciate, appreciate-life, bad-times, cancer, crawling, darkness, good-times, hard-times, holding-on, learning, life, life-lessons, pain, reward, shadows, sickness, struggle, suicide, sun, surviving, test
    581 likes

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    Tad Williams
    “Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”
    ― Tad Williams, Shadowrise
    tags: life, light, sun
    30 likes

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    Dave Barry
    “It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: coffee, espresso, peets, starbucks
    632 likes



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