February 2012
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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see...
– John Green
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...
– C.G. Jung
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...
– Ian McEwan
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Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility-it is always expanding,...
– David Levithan
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Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices...
– Brandon Mull
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We are so used to releasing words, we don’t know what to do with them if they...
– David Levithan
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...
– René Descartes
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Perhaps—I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am...
– Margaret Mitchell
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One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and...
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...
– Nietzsche
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There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The...
– Albert Einstein
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
– Mel Brooks
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a...
– George Burns
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The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious...
– Elie Wiesel
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Children without childhood are a dark and fearsome spectacle.
– Mokher Sefarim Mendele
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that...
– Henry Ward Beecher
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they...
– Helen Keller
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
– Zelda Fitzgerald
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall...
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they...
– Oscar Wilde
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Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I...
– Star Trek: TNG
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I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather. I want to write poems that are...
– Stanley Kunitz
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Man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
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One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of...
– William Wordsworth
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People will show you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be...
– Don Draper
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I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...
– Vladimir Nabokov
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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni) 1 The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark - now glittering - now reflecting gloom - Now lending splendor, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings Of waters, - with a sound but half its own, Such as a feeble brook will oft assume In the wild woods, amon the mountains lone,...
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My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor.
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness …
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and...
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I’m yours for ever—for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If...
– Henry James
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to...
– Ernest Hemingway
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But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.
– Ernest Hemingway
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I...
– Anne Frank
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Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is...
– Katherine Hepburn
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are...
– Sylvia Plath
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I want you to come to me without a past. Those lines you’ve learned, forget...
– Jeanette Winterson
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Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?
– Daphne du Maurier
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The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all...
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you...
– Jeanette Winterson
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What other people think of you is none of your business.
– Paulo Coelho
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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in...
– Bob Dylan
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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
– Mitch Albom
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In the end, everyone loses everyone.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down...
– Jeanette Winterson
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life...
– Jonathan Safran Foer