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"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
206 people liked it

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: sex
87 people liked it

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the and that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'"
— Aldous Huxley

24 people liked it

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: cats, life, music
307 people liked it

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: war
61 people liked it

"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
— Sigmund Freud

tags: human, nature
39 people liked it

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
75 people liked it

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: writing
352 people liked it

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
— Henry James

tags: kindness
666 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,391 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,370 people liked it

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
— Malcolm X

tags: activism, truth
192 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,542 people liked it

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
— Voltaire

tags: books
34 people liked it

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
— Voltaire

266 people liked it

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."
— Elizabeth Peters

28 people liked it

"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)

15 people liked it

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
142 people liked it

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
— Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom
404 people liked it

"In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
— Edith Wharton

19 people liked it

"Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
— Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

26 people liked it

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."
— René Descartes

23 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,549 people liked it

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: friendship, love
1,664 people liked it

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
— Jimi Hendrix

511 people liked it

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski

481 people liked it

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: family, food
107 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

482 people liked it

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats
40 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
751 people liked it

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
— Ernest Hemingway

53 people liked it

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