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No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#motherhood #women #consciousness

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#valentinettti #poets

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#eccentricity #eels #fish #individuality #individuality

I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just… a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#funny

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#crisis #explorer #ideas #wisdom #consciousness

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hope #hopelessness #suicide #consciousness

Live your epitaph ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #epitaph #humane #introspective #live

Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. ↗

— Henry Miller

#destiny

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#born #forests #grew #hill #i

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. ↗

— Plato

#poets #themselves #things #understand #utter