Art imitates Life

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Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.

(A. Camus)

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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it.

Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

 F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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I love you because I love you, and if you don’t like it you can use my circular logic as a noose and hang yourself.

Jarod Kintz (Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81)

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It was terrible. All of the things we couldn’t share. The room was filled with conversations we weren’t having.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka

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She had eyes like sunsets, and every time she blinked it felt like the end of the world.

Jarod Kintz

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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect

J.D.Salinger

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With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.

Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

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February is the shortest month of the year, so if you are having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February.

Lemony Snicket

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… that when you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to.

Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

Jarod Kintz, I Want

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I wasn’t sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it’s Thursday. The thing about life still applies.

 Friedrich Nietzsche

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In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov (via fellinlovewithmelancholy)

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

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Where can I find A girl I knew by J.D.Salinger? Anyone knows?