memoriesoftheworld

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Le poète devient peintre lorsque l'on remplace sa plume par un pinceau.

Eugène Delacroix

Lettre à Jean-Baptiste Pierret, 25 avril 1824

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Not everything in the heart can be said, so god created sighs, tears, long sleep, cold smile and shivering hands.

Nizar Qabbani

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I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you.I will not let you have me me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.

Nikita Gill, The Dance

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Who you are is worth becoming.

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"I'm kind of an absent friend.

I will love you with my whole heart and go out of my way to give you any help you need.

But I tend to live in my own world and suck at keeping up communication.

And I'm truly sorry to anyone who takes that personally."

themindsjournal

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All my admiration to the way your eyelashes kiss your cheeks.

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You, he said, are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

Nietzsche

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite History.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890

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"I should like to be the sun. And you can be the moon."

"But then, we'd never see each other."

"Not so, young one. The moon shines because of the sun, you know. Because the sun is always there. Just like me."

"Alright, then I don't mind."

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You be the sun, I'll be the moon.

Just let your light come shining through ;

and when night comes, just like the moon,

I'll shine the light right back to you.

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Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

J. Hendrix

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The love and the attention you think you need from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give yourself.

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A revolution isn't a gala dinner.

It cannot be created like a book, a drawing or a tapestry. It cannot unfold with such elegance, tranquility and delicacy. Or such sweetness, affability, courtesy restraint and generosity.

A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another

Theo - The Dreamers, 2003

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it's okay if your heart needs more time to accept what your head already knows.

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a quote that lives rent free in my head :

“For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here, in the dark, with you…I have no name.” - James Fraser

Outlander [2014]

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Franz Wright, God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996"

[Text ID: Go out and look at the stars / shining / in the past.]

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"i loved you on this day. i love this memory."

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)