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"i think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. if the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? …we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. a book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us"
franz kafka

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"but that's not why people watch tv. clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared.[...] you see? tv audiences don't want anything original. they wanna see the same thing they've seen a thousand times before."
fry {futurama, season 2 episode 3}

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"you're a different human being to everyone you meet."
chuck palahniuk {from rant}

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"nothing in me is original. i am the combined effort of everybody i've ever known."
chuck palahniuk {from invisible monsters}

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"be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
dr. seuss

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"people fall so in love with their pain, the can't leave it behind."
chuck palahniuk {from haunted}

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"everyday you gotta wake up and be yourself, even if you suck. especially if you suck, because no one sucks like you suck."
patrick stump

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"a hug can turn your day around, it’s like an emotional heimlich. someone puts their arms around you, and they give you a squeeze and all your fear and anxiety comes shooting out of your mouth, and you can breathe again."
chuck {pushing daises, season 1 episode 1}

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"be yourself. everyone else is already taken."
oscar wilde

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"in 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn't do than by what you did."
mark twain

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"never underestimate the capacity of other people to let you down."
harry {dexter, season 3 episode 6}

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"experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
oscar wilde {from the picture of dorian gray}

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"there’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."
gillian flynn {from gone girl}

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"no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
chuck palahniuk {from invisible monsters}

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"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 {from a nice quiet place - the complete short stories and essays, v ii}

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"and as to being in a fright,
allow me to remark
that ghosts have just as good a right
in every way, to fear the light,
as men to fear the dark."
lewis carroll {phantasmagoria canto I}

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"what we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. and they have changed since then."
t.s. eliot {from the cocktail party}

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"my deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. i doubt everything, even my doubt."
gustave flaubert {any other detail}

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"since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. it is walking towards me, without hurrying."
jean cocteau

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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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"i am not what happened to me, i am what I choose to become."
c.g. jung

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"it's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. we have no scar to show for happiness. we learn so little from peace."
chuck palahniuk {from diary}

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"i am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than i."
sylvia plath

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"i am supposed to be touched. i can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. i am a lovely woman. who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?"
jenny slate {from little weirds}