"I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
Oscar Wilde

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"Do you ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? Makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other people’s lives have we been in? Were we a part of someone’s life when their dreams came true? Or were we there when their dreams died? Did we keep trying to get in as is if we were somehow destined to be there? Or did the shot take us by surprise? Just think. You could be a big part of someone else’s life and not even know it."
Lucas Scott

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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life."

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage


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"It’s hard to be happy. Some people have the gift of pulling themselves up and out and saying there is more to life than just tragedy. And then there are those who can’t, and I’m one of them. Do you believe it when people say they’re happy?"
Maurice Sendak 

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"One day, a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of."
J.D. Salinger

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"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?"
Ernest Hemingway 

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"Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful."
Robert Brault

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"You last only moments and experience too few things."
Rakishi. excerpt from “Trading Wealth with Wisdom” 1934.

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"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club 

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"One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family."
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated 

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"No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself."
Haruki Murakami, After the quake 

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde 

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"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
A.A. Milne 

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"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop where not there, the ocean would be missing something."
Mother Theresa 

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