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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (via wordsnquotes)

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Ram Dass (via wordsnquotes)

thelovejournals

True intimacy is more than fooling around with somebody you’re attracted to. I want to share myself with somebody who will press her hands through the surface of my skin, curl herself up inside my soul and say, Here, this is who I am.

Beau Taplin (via wordsnquotes)

theliteraryjournals

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (via wordsnquotes)

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I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via wordsnquotes)

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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. (via wordsnquotes)

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Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

Haidji, Suicide Game (via wordsnquotes)

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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (via wordsnquotes)

thequotejournals

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

Eckhart Tolle (via wordsnquotes)

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Because you don’t notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty (via wordsnquotes)