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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

- Plato

—Quotes About Love 

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

—Albert Camus (via likeafieldmouse)

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.” ― G.K. Chesterton

—G.K. Chesterton Quotes (Author of The Man Who Was Thursday)

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Brothers Karamazov (via wordpainting)

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ― Plato

—Quotes About Love (15060 quotes)

Wherever the crowd goes, run in the other direction.

—Charles Bukowski (via acideyedrops)

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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

—Thich Nhat Hanh (via allthingssoulful)

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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

― Roald Dahl

—Quotes

They sit for hours on the ‘cafés’ warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about ‘culture’ ‘art’ ‘revolution’ and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses, and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.

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Frida Kahlo, in a letter to her lover, the photographer Nickolas Muray, expressing her disdain for the members of the art scene in Paris. 

Frida Kahlo, Paris, France letter to Nickolas Muray, New York, N.Y.

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—Reminds me of my days in Berkeley. ~Nobody

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via lostsplendor)

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou.
My baby.
My love. ― Pete Hamill, Tabloid City: A Novel

—Quote by Pete Hamill: Just like that. Gone forever. They will not gro…