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#1

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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#2

“What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”
“I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: love, lovers

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#3

“He said something like that:
“In all languages in the world, there is the same proverb: ‘What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Well, I say that there isn’t any ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget. If we’re far from exile, we want to store away every tiny memory of our roots. If we’re far from the person we love, everyone we pass in the street reminds us of them.
At the end of the service, I went up to him and thanked him: I said I was a stranger in a strange land, and I thanked him for reminding me that what the eyes don’t see, the heart does grieve over. And my heart has grieved so much, that today I’m leaving.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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#4

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry

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#5

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

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#6

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry

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#7

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#8

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

tags: love, poetry

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#9

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.”
― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems

tags: heart, heartbreak, poetry, wisdom

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#10

“We are made of all those who have built and broken us.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

tags: atticus, atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild

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#11

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: advice, poetry

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#12

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

tags: books, friends, poetry

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#13

“i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely”
― Ntozake Shange

tags: poetry

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#14

“You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'
Well I value words like I value kisses
A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart
Darling it's how it mends it”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: beautiful, beauty, hearts, kissing, love, lyrics, poem, poetry, prudence, rhyme, silence, sincerity, sober, speech, value, words, worth, writing

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#15

“The touch of
your fingers
grazing mine
delicate as
a single drop of wine
in a crystal goblet.
Rolling it round,
I savor it on my tongue,
try to
make it last
forever.

The words
I
love
you
form
in the air
and melt.

Your palm
against
my cheek,
light as
a snowflake.”
― Eve Merriam "Love Letters Unmailed"

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#16

“It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”
― Malcolm X

tags: metaphor

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#17

“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
― Justina Chen Headley, North of Beautiful

tags: coffee, jacob, joy-of-life, justina-chen-headley, north-of-beautiful

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#18

“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.”
― Marcia Carrington

tags: coffee, habits, human-nature, humor, morning

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#19

“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion,
A shadow, a delirium, a fiction.
The greatest good's but little, and this life
Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño

tags: poetry, quotes

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#20

“You’re lonely,” they say,
but it doesn’t scare me
anymore
for it teaches me,
and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I don’t break mirrors anymore,
like I always thought I would.

I can finally stand myself,
and I never thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: being-fine, being-ok, belief, break, doing-ok, fine, go-on, growing, inspiring, let-go, letting-go, lonely, mirrors, move-on, moving-on, okay, poetry, progress, prose, recovery, sad, self-worth, teaching, they-say, youth

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#21

“And someday,
when the parties
don’t dazzle you anymore,
and when the alcohol fails
to amuse your senses,
come to me.

We’ll lie on the grass,
stare at the stars,
and talk about Life.

Maybe I will become the Moment
you rediscover yourself again.”
― Meraaqi, Divine Trouble

tags: art, calm, connection, divine-trouble, existence, finding-yourself, happiness, literature, love, meraaqi, moment, poem, poems, poetic, poetry, prose-poetry, quotes, quotes-about-life, understanding, words

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#22

“leave me a smile
just warm enough...
to spend a million
golden afternoons in.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

tags: afternoon, golden, poetry, poetry-quotes, smile, smiling, warm, warmth

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#23

“Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.”
― Robert M. Drake, Beautiful Chaos

tags: fall, good, home, love, move-on, poetry, return, save

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#24

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi”
― Rumi

tags: rumi-poetry

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#25

“Some say, don't burn your bridges.

I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,

and watch it
turn to ash.

There's always more than one way
to cross the water.”
― Rudy Francisco

tags: poetry

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#26

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle

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#27

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: the-paris-wife

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#28

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

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#29

“To feel anything
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

tags: lovers

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#30

“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

tags: movement, words, writing

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