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It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...

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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

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C. S. LewisAn Experiment in Criticism

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

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I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

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That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...

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all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair o...

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all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish t...

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefriger...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by w...

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We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions a...

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Accursed be he that first invented war.

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to loo...

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And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they’re not baselines, that contain and d...

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

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If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was...

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Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dan...

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Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

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Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people pray...

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You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape...

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Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions ...

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The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Chocolate is an excellent flavor for ice cream but both unreasonable and disconcerting in chewing gu...

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powe...

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A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the ac...

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Friedrich NietzscheAphorisms on Love and Hate

Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...

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I have some devotional books you can look over. Learn to quote from them. Nothing discourages unwant...

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George R. R. MartinA Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking ...

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H. G. WellsThe War of the Worlds

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

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There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, al...

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Love is the poetry of the senses!

You do care, you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it all.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unl...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most dif...

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Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. ...

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Molly was arrested. Possession.” I blinked at him. “She was possessed?

HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rat...

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Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be ...

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't makeit through one door, I'll go through ano...

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Dear love, for nothing less than theeWould I have broke this happy dream;It was a themeFor reason, m...

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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuarie...

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John FowlesThe French Lieutenant's Woman

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Becau...

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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping...

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She loved so much misteries tha she became one

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead......

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I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishme...

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I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you don’t see a...

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Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

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I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early d...

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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a ...

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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

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Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

Every year when i travel around the world, i wonder if it’ll be diferent, maybe one year won’t come ...

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Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t wa...

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God's codpiece, you're very kind

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Laurie LeeAs I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

VERY EARLY ONE MORNING in July 1977, the FBI, having been tipped off about Operation Snow White, car...

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Lawrence WrightGoing Clear: Scientology

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (192...

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I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love whi...

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