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“Are you fond of roses? It feels to me: as if all the roses in the world bloom for you and by means of you.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé

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“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”

Bran Stoker, Dracula

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“Who am I to judge, when even I myself walk as an imperfect man.”

Luke 6:37

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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I don’t want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don’t feel entitled or like I’m a superstar. I’m still growing, learning, and figuring things out.”

Kirsten Storms, Aries

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“How do I look away now that I have seen you?”

Rachel Mennies

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Read to understand not to find a problem.

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“You never really get used to the feeling of being an individual. How strange it is that you’re born alone and die alone. That you alone must carry your own body, and your own name.”

John Koenig, Ioche from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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January: The month of opportunity, the month of inspiration, and the month of change.

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“Choice is the deceit of the soul.”

Frankenstein, dir. Guillermo del Toro

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“A kiss can destroy a philosophy.”

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin

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“Angels and monsters do walk among us, the trick is to tell which is which.”

Lies We Tell, dir. Lisa Mulcahy

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“Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.”

Jennifer Michael Hecht, September

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“I have not written enough lately, and therefore have been less calm and less reasonable.”

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3 (1923-1927)

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“Al artists are tourists, and even worse, they're the type of tourists who lack respect for the place they're visiting and end up trashing everything while deliberately antagonizing the locals. If fear mongering is your primary conversion tactic, you've already lost.”

Reid Southen

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“Pondered the possibilities offered me, on these streets, squares, garden benches and brooksides, of feeling thoroughly unhappy. Whoever can cry should come here on Sunday.”

Franz Kafka

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“Your room is not your prison. You are.”

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals