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#1

“The horror! The horror!”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: kurtz, the-horror

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#2

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#3

“I don't believe in anything, Mother," I said. "You told Armand long ago that you believe you'll find answers in the great jungles and forests; that the stars will finally reveal a vast truth. But I don't believe in anything. And that makes me stronger than you think”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

tags: belief

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#4

“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: beethoven, music

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#5

“Speak in extremes, it'll save you time. ”
― David Bowie

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#6

“What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?”
― S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep

tags: human-nature, memories

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#7

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
― Salvador Dali

tags: surrealism

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#8

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
and out of the heart”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: art, destruction

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#9

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

tags: benjamin-button, change, courage, time

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#10

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

tags: darkness, dreams, time

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#11

“Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
― Walt Disney

tags: fantasy, time

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#12

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

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#13

“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: art, capture, fashion-designer, forever, gone, impossible, memories, memory, moment, photo, photography, reproduce, shoot

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#14

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
― Coco Chanel

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#15

“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: chanel, clothes, clothing, create, creation, creativity, design, designer, fashion, image, interpret, interpretation, karl-lagerfeld, language, look, quote, quotes, real, reality, style

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#16

“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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#17

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: dark, designer, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, life, live, living, love, romance, tragic, world

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#18

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: chanel, designer, down-to-earth, earth, fashion, funny, humor, karl-lagerfeld, label, labeling, quote, quotes

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#19

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: air, art, color, designer, moment, music

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#20

“I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: create, creation, design, designer, fashion, invent, job, karl-lagerfeld, myself, reinvent, self, work

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#21

“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: age, nostalgia, trends

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#22

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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#23

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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#24

“Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: art, designer, express, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, life, music, period, quote, quotes, time, wisdom

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#25

“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: art, chanel, creativity, dangerous, ephemeral, fashion-designer, genius, life, unfair

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#26

“Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs”
― Karl Lagerfeld

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#27

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
― E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

tags: life

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#28

“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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#29

“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays

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#30

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
― William C. Faulkner

tags: home, nostalgia

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