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“The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.”

— Patrick Modiano (via wordsnquotes)

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“« Il est beau d’écrire ce qu’on pense ; c’est le privilège de l’homme. »”

— Voltaire, Candide ou l’Optimisme

#voltaire #candide #livre #book #français #french #littérature française #french literature #conte #tale #philosophie #philosophy #citation

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“You have always wanted to caress every monster.”

— Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

#quote #inspiring quotes #friedrich nietzsche #thus spoke zarathustra #literature

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“I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening betwen us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

— Ransom Riggs; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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“Couchant d’automne — la solitude aussi est une joie”

— Haïku : Anthologie du poème court japonais (Yosa Buson)

#anthologie du poème court japonais #book #haiku #japanese literature #poetry #poème #poem #citation #joy #loneliness #quote

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“C’est la nuit qu’il est beau de croire à la lumière.”

— Edmond Rostand (Chantecler)

#light #quote #citation #night #Edmond Rostand

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« Mais mon amour silencieux et fidèle

Sourit toujours et remercie la vie »

- Jacques Prévert, Les feuilles mortes

#quote #lit #french #poetry #poem #beauty #prévert #les feuilles mortes

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“J’étais gai, j’étais triste. J’étais fou de bonheur. Et accablé de chagrin. La vie m’a toujours paru délicieuse — et le monde, plein de larmes.”

— Jean d'Ormesson, C'était bien

#jean d'ormesson #c'était bien #livre #book #french #littérature française #french literature #novel #citation #quote

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“It’s better this way. A little lonelier but better.”

— Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before/ (via thelovejournals)

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“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.”

— Jeanette Winterson (via amortizing)

#truth #inspiring quotes #quote #words #life

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“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

— Kim Culbertson, The Liberation of Max McTrue

#quote #lit #beauty #loneliness #inspiring quotes #words

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“I fly, I crawl, I weep, I laugh, I swim, I grow, I fall, I need, I want, I follow, I break, I sink, I love, I exist.”

— Anais Nin

#quote #lit #poetry #poem #inspiration #inspiring quotes #anais nin #life

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“« C’est un drôle d’exil d’être exilé de son enfance. »”

— « Ma chère Maman… » (recueil) (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

#ma chère maman #français #book #livre #littérature française #french #french literature #correspondance #citation #quote #antoine de saint exupéry #enfance

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“Today in my heart

a vague trembling of stars”

― Federico García Lorca

#quote #lit #poetry #poem #garcia lorca