May 2013
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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Hours
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with...”
– James Baldwin
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“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has...”
– Hermann Hesse
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“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and...”
– Sofia Coppola on Lost in Translation (2003)
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“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”
– Jane Hirshfield, from “Vinegar and Oil”
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“Also you are a fool to seek the kind of art you don’t like. You are a fool to...”
– Ezra Pound, “The Serious Artist”
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“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more...”
– Eugene O’Neill
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“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and...”
– Eugene O’Neill
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“Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
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“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Herzog, Saul Bellow
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“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
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“Let’s face it, buddy boy, there’s two kinds of people in the world....”
– Nathaniel Fisher, Six Feet Under
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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“‘But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger...”
– Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (p. 59)
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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
– A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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April 2013
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“I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money,...”
– Into the Wild (2007)
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“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets...”
– John Steinbeck on falling in love
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“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”
– Bobby Sommer
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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
– Tennessee Williams 