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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#writer #life

A demonic reaper asked to be my valentine and then killed his crazy ex-girlfriend to save my life. Tomorrow I was starting up antipsychotic meds. ↗

— Courtney Allison Moulton

#ex-girlfriends #humor #life-saving #meds #reaper

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#job #than #work #you #your

Life is too short ↗

— I don't know..

#true #life

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #suffering #wounds #life

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. ↗

— John Fowles

#anyone #except #important #important questions #life

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#nightmares #shadows #life

The river is everywhere. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #omnipresence #river #life

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. ↗

— Paul Auster

#loneliness #paper #words #writer #writing

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#desire #future #life #present #thoughts