The Great Awake

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Hey everybody. Will be back to posting soon. Am moving and quotebook/commonplace journal is somewhere in a box. Once I’ve found it I’ll post again.

“I will return.”

-Douglas MacArthur

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“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

- Measure For Measure

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“Be yourself always, the sun takes no instructions from anyone as to how bright it should be.”

- Clinton

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“Don’t look back - you’re not going that way.”

- Mary Engelbreit

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“If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

- Frank Zappa

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“Dissatisfaction with oneself is one of the fundamental characteristics of any talented person.”

- Anton Chekhov

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“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

- William Shakespeare

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“All that glitters is not gold.”

- William Shakespeare

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“If I am killed simply for being alive, let death be kinder than man.”

- Althea Davis

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“I don’t want to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It’s mortifying. It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”

- Ryan O’Connell

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“My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.”

- Gustave Flaubert, A Letter to Louise Colbert

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“Were you dissapointed when you got to know me?”

- Gracious Joey

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“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

- Christa Wolf, Cassandra: a novel and four essays

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“The Sadness will last forever.”

- Vincent van Gogh

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“You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy, because you understand them but they do not understand you.”

- Daniel Saint

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“I have never been the most important thing to anybody — not even myself.”

- Ranata Suzuki

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“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”

- If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio