The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947
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It's March. I open the window and spring floats in, kisses me on the nose. I have waited so long- and now the Sun is washing the world in yellow, and now the seeds sprout green in the dirt, and now the trees are budding and ready to bloom- and it was all so worth it
Schuyler Peck, Worth the Wait
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"Don't bend; don't water it down;
don't try to make it logical;
don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly".
— Franz Kafka
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That strange feeling of longing when you are at a train station, in a 24/7 open market, when you are buying a coke from the vending machine, watching the city lights glow from your window, when you’re walking aimlessly on a busy street after 5 pm, that feeling as if something is missing in your life and it will never come back although it was never there in the first place; that inexplicable urban sadness.
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Romance has changed, man.
Mr Darcy lost his touch.
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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”
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“To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.”
— Henri Poincaré
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The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence
- Charles Bukowski
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“the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. we are made of stardust.”
- carl sagan, cosmos
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