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

Dahl, Roald on life
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Sagan, Carl Edward on Curiosity
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"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."

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

Plath, Sylvia on Life and Living
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"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 and Living
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