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    Mark Gatiss
    “I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe – your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldn’t resist it, could you? I’ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.”
    ― Mark Gatiss
    tags: love, sherlock-holmes
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    Anthony Horowitz
    “Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
    ― Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk
    tags: brains, deduction, genius, intelligence, mental-power, sherlock-holmes
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power
    1681 likes

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    J.R. Ward
    “You are a manipulator.
    I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
    tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation
    1364 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
    429 likes

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Love without sacrifice is like theft”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love
    418 likes

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    Nenia Campbell
    “The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.

    They would be irresistible.”
    ― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape
    tags: bad-boys, dangerous, dark, horror-romance, sex, sex-appeal, true-to-life, villains, villainy
    289 likes

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    Lacey Weatherford
    “What girl doesn't love the tortured bad boy? I think when it comes to bad boys, girls/women have this desire to step forward and try to rescue that sort of individual. It is very appealing to the nurturer inside us I think."
    - author Lacey Weatherford during an interview on whether she was a bad boy kinda girl”
    ― Lacey Weatherford
    tags: bad-boys, interview, lacey-weatherford
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  • #10
    C.M. Stunich
    “The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.”
    ― C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You
    tags: bad-boys, enjoy-the-violence, excitement, laid, lovers, relations, sex, sexual-relations, sexual-tension, sexuality, thoughtful, turn-on
    37 likes

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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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  • #13
    Willa Cather
    “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
    ― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
    tags: desire
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
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    Harper Lee
    “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: mockingbird, sin, wisdom
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    Aphra Behn
    “There is no sinner like a young saint.”
    ― Aphra Behn
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    Mark Twain
    “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: sin, temptation
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44298 likes

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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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  • #21
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
    tags: emotions, life, spiritual
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  • #22
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Pity those who don't feel anything at all.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
    tags: emotions, pity
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  • #23
    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: emotions, heart, insanity, love, rationality, reason
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  • #25
    “And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
    ― Christopher Poindexter
    tags: brokenness, drunk, love, misattributed-f-scott-fitzgerald
    680 likes

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  • #26
    Connie Brockway
    “You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.”
    ― Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
    tags: advice, fear, villain, weapons
    57 likes

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  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
    15718 likes

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  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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  • #29
    Jim Morrison
    “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: jim, life, morrison, pain, reality
    6430 likes

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  • #30
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
    5257 likes



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