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Beautiful Violence
Beautiful Violence I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. ― Franz Kafka
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The Silent Overflow
The Silent Overflow We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it ru…
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Hunger for Chaos
Hunger for Chaos A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized lif…
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Unwritten Paths
Unwritten Paths A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s go…
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The Oldest story
The Oldest story Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story. ― Richard Siken , War of the Foxes
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Authenticity
Authenticity How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived? Sure, I make a sort of synthesi…
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Quiet Measure of a Person
Quiet Measure of a Person The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can&…
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Seeing the Unseen
Seeing the Unseen I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living. ― Fyodor D…
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Wilderness
Wilderness I don't want to make it to the promised land if it means I forget the wilderness. ― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Libera…
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Silent Persuasion
Silent Persuasion You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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Solitude and Dark
Solitude and Dark I've never been afraid of the dark. I'm more afraid of the day, of people. I love the night. The solitude. Well, I don't love i…
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While it's still here
While it's still here " And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That…
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Hear the Symphony
Hear the Symphony “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddle-strings and harps, drums and tambura I sound and clash inside my…
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Dreams and Actions
Dreams and Actions You do not write your life with words You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. - Patri…
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Attention and Will
Attention and Will French Philosopher Simone Weil wrote: Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love. Ab…
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Living Your Own
Living Your Own "You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not ever give anyone else the responsibility for your life." - Mary Oliver
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The Sunfilled Souls
The Sun-filled Souls So here's to those souls- who glow without trying, who offer peace without words, who remind us that light can be quiet and love …
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Blossoming
Blossoming The Risk of Growth: Why Blossoming Is worth it. Some quotes don't just sound beautiful- they feel true. And the day came when the risk to rem…
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