"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   

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

Poe, Edgar Allan on religion
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"I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally."

Fitzgerald, Zelda on love
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

Dahl, Roald on life   

"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."

Dahl, Roald on life   

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Sagan, Carl Edward on curiosity   

"Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul."

Baudelaire, Charles on rejection
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"I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card."

Baudelaire, Charles on gambling
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"I am too pure for you or anyone."

Plath, Sylvia on   

"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion"

Plath, Sylvia on life   

"I want freedom, the right to self expression, everybodys right to beautiful radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world – prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal."

Goldman, Emma on life