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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

— Unknown

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Poems & Words

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“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”

— Don DeLillo, White Noise

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Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

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“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” — Kurt Vonnegut

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016).

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“She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.”

— Shel Silverstein, “Every Thing on It,” Where the Sidewalk Ends

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“Once you stop wanting something, you get it.”

— Andy Warhol

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“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

— Virginia Woolf

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“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

— Khaled Hosseini // The Kite Runner

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@wnq-quotes

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“I never wish to be easily defined.”

— Franz Kafka (via fy-perspectives)

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“Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.” - Plato, Laws

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“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”

— John Green

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Anna Karina, muse of the Nouvelle Vague

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“Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you’re alive.”

— John Mayer