Disguised Feelings

we have art in order not to die from the truth 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘢 • 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 • 𝘢𝘳𝘵 • 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 • 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

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Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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I am nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't even wish to be something.

Fernando Pessoa

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Alone in the night

On a dark hill

With pines around me

Spicy and still

from Stars by Sara Teasdale

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Tonight I can write the saddest lines. The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

Pablo Neruda

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The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

Albert Camus

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell, 1984

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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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2012-04-04

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 1882

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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Better by far you should forget and smile. Than that you should remember and be sad.

—From Remember, by Christina Rossetti

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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy, The Road