posts tagged "quote"

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Live in such a way that if somebody spoke badly of you, no one would believe it.

Unknown
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Architecture is music frozen in time.

Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Why do we ask so many questions? Two people shouldn’t know each other too well if they want to fall in love.

L’Eclisse (1962)

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I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

Esperanza Spalding

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I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

Jonathan Safran Foer, via Everything Is Illuminated

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Now you’re trying, right?

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“If you hit a wrong note, the next note determines if it’s good or bad.” Photo: Baron Wolman, NY, 1969

“If you hit a wrong note, the next note determines if it’s good or bad.”

Photo: Baron Wolman, NY, 1969

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C.S. Lewis
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He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that, because she was kind. And before that, because she was smart and funny. Because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. Because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. Because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she’d have to say about it—how many stars she’d give it and why.

Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction—every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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