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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character is that which can do without success.”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”

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Author:Oliver Sacks

“If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.”

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Author:Gerard Way

“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.”

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Book:An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians

Source: An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

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Book:Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black

Source: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - The Man In Black

“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.”

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Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.”

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Author:Grant Morrison

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”

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Author:Franz Kafka

“...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!”

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Author:Erykah Badu

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