December 2011
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never...”
– Robert Frost
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“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the...”
– Ed Cunningham
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“The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.”
– Thornton Wilder
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“Don’t say you love me unless you really mean it, because I might do...”
– Anonymous
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“I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.”
– Byron Caldwell Smith
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous...”
– Agatha Christie
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via kerryquotesquotes)
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“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!...”
– William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoide
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it,...”
– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth and Being Free
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“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
– W. H. Auden
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“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a...”
– Paul Sweeney
“Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a great and glorious nation....”
– Banksy (via makethingsgoboom)
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“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful....”
– Drew Barrymore
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“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.”
– Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
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“You can’t just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes...”
– Robert Frost
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“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot...”
– Dalai Lama XIV
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“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing...”
– G.K. Chesterton
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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
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“Evil is more famous than goodness.”
– Topa Beta, Master of Stupidity
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“Greed in a good cause is still greed.”
– Stephen King, Wolves of Calla
“I don’t know you. The only thing I know about you is, you’re reading this. I...”
– Nick Hornby (via paperboatsandaeroplanes)
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“We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many...”
– Marilyn Monroe
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“…unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret...”
– Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein
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“And he hated himself and hated her, too, for the ruin they’d made of each...”
– Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
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“And I was — this is just how I was afraid you’d take it. I knew it,...”
– David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“I think women are encouraged to be into sex, but we’re encouraged to be into sex...”
– Clarisse Thorn (Interview with a sex-positive feminist — Feministe)
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that...”
– Maya Angelou