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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. 

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. 

- Dante Alighieri, Inferno

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Too weird to live, too rare to die!

- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

- bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all. 

- Molière, Tartuffe

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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. 

- Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by  madness, starving hysterical naked,  dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn  looking for an angry fix,  angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly  connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,  who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat  up smoking in the supernatural darkness of  cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities  contemplating jazz,  who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and  saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,  who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes  hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy  among the scholars of war,  

- Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody. 

- James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

- Sophocles, Antigone

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If we don't have each other, we don't have anything. 

- S.E. Hinton , The Outsiders

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No one is ever holy without suffering.

- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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