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Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you―and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.

George Saunders (via penguinrandomhouse)

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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She's mad but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

Charles Bukowski

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I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

E.E. Cummings

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He said, "There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live."

Dalai Lama

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They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

Virginia Woolfe

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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La. They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-Earth.

- George R.R. Martin  (via indisposablehero)

This is one of the most beautiful quotes I think I have ever read. I love it, and I will treasure it for my entire life.

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Thousand moments: I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to thank you for the thousand scattered moments you left behind to watch us while we slept.

Brian Andreas

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I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honour.

Margaret Mitchell

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Sometimes all I want to do is scream; scream until it knocks me to my knees and throws my head back and tears off my clothes and pierces whatever resides beyond the heavens and shatters the glass and the buildings and the people and colors everything. And then I’ll lay naked of blood, sweat and tears, and then…then I’ll be better.

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare

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"The Lighthouse" 2013, pen on moleskine paper, cm 14x18

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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Peter McArthur

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No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005