March 2012
66 posts
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“Fear is the mother of morality.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
February 2012
58 posts
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“Poets, even today, more so than other people, are inclined to believe in certain...”
– Herman Hesse, Pictor’s Metamorphoses
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“There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the...”
– Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
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“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and...”
– G.K. Chesterton
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“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or Life in the Woods
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“It should not be denied…that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It...”
– Wallace Stegner, The American West as Living Space
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“It is very difficult to make one’s way in the world without being wicked at one...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of...”
– William Burroughs
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“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to...”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud
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“We don’t laugh because we’re happy- we’re happy because we...”
– William James
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely...”
– Lord Byron
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“Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as...”
– Saraha
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Gather the stars if you wish it so
Gather the songs and keep them.
Gather the...”
– Carl Sandburg
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“The bottoms of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles...”
– e.e. cummings
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“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss...”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
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“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing...”
– Madeline L’Engle
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“Why did he write to her,
“I can’t live without you”?
And why did she write to...”
– Carl Sandburg
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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in...”
– Roald Dahl, The BFG
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
– Allen Ginsburg
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
– Milan Kundera
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the...”
– Jim Morrison
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“To die would be an awfully big adventure.”
– James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
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“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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“It’s getting bad, Dad. A stewardess was stabbed. They seem to have knives...”
– Peter Hanson, in a phone call to his father on 9/11. Three minutes later, his plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Truly moving.
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“If you believe you’re a poet, then you’re saved.”
– Gregory Corso
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“There are so many little dyings that it doesn’t matter which of them is...”
– Kenneth Patchen
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“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“…and if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its...”
– Roald Dahl
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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is...”
– George Gordon Byron
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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
– Walt Whitman
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“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Isn’t it pretty to think so.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the...”
– Pablo Neruda