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#1

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#2

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: achilles, patroclus, the-song-of-achilles

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#3

“His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.”
― Warsan Shire

tags: eyes, sea, stay

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#4

“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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#5

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: death, depression, fear, friendship, life, loneliness, mental-illness, social-anxiety, social-awkwardness, suicidal, suicide

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#6

“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Homer

tags: beauty, mortality, presence

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#7

“she realised she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes and the depth of his laugh”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

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#7

“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”
― Camille Paglia

tags: camille-paglia

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#8

“In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#9

“She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

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#10

“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: classics

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#11

“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#12

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: self-realization

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#15

“Be the sun and all will see you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#15

“I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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#17

“Know that I loved you, she said to the Darkling. Know that it was not enough.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

tags: love

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#17

“If I could, I would apologize to the sky and my room ceiling for all of the nights I’ve awkwardly stared at them remembering things I should have forgotten.”
― Maxwell Diawuoh

tags: night, thoughts

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#18

“How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”
― David "Doc" Luben

tags: life, love, suicide

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#19

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: god, humor, life

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#20

“she had never been able to understand the laws of a universe which was so ready to leave her out of its calculations.”
― Edith Wharton

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#21

“Ah, no--she was too intelligent not to be honest with herself. She knew that she hated dinginess as much as her mother had hated it, and to her last breath she meant to fight against it, dragging herself up again and again above its flood till she gained the bright pinnacles of success which presented such a slippery surface to her clutch.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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#22

“One should always be a little improbable.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

tags: intensity, poetry, zeal

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#24

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

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#25

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#26

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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