"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
- Charles Bukowski
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"I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?"
- Pablo Neruda
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"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
- A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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"A poem begins with a lump in the throat."
- Robert Frost
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"How vain it is to sit down to write
when you have not stood up to live"
- Henry David Thoreau
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"I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky."
- Virginia Woolf
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"I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth."
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
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"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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"It’s not a big thing, but I guess it’s true—big things are often just small things that are noticed."
- Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
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"More and more I found myself at a loss for words and didn’t want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone."
- Paula McLain, The Paris Wife
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"Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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"We are all museums of fear."
- Charles Bukowski, Poem for Nobody
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"And she wanted for a moment to hold him and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround him and engulf him."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night
(Source: fuckyeahfitzgerald, via man-of-prose)