"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything."

Warhol, Andy on cinema
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"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

DiFranco, Ani on love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."

Unknown, Source on love
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"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort on loneliness
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on art
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Einstein, Albert on reality
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"Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Warhol, Andy on responsibility
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"I am a deeply superficial person."

Warhol, Andy on people   

"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."

Warhol, Andy on love
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."

Thoreau, Henry David on sin
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"I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy."

Petty, Tom on laziness   

"dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

Plath, Sylvia on death   

"How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought..."

Plath, Sylvia on sensitivity
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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

Plath, Sylvia on perspective
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"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."

Plath, Sylvia on neurosis   

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

Warhol, Andy on image   

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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