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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
—
Jorge Luis Borges
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,
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3,236 people liked it
"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
—
Fyodor Dostoevsky
(
Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead
)
tags:
happiness
,
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,
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145 people liked it
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."
—
Nora Ephron
20 people liked it
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
—
Sigmund Freud
30 people liked it
"So many books, so little time."
—
Frank Zappa
tags:
books
,
humor
9,551 people liked it
"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
"
—
Simone de Beauvoir
10 people liked it
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
—
Marcus Tullius Cicero
tags:
books
,
soul
11,388 people liked it
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
—
George Eliot
tags:
inspirational
3,263 people liked it
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
—
George Plimpton
14 people liked it
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
—
Martin Luther King Jr.
tags:
inspirational
,
right
437 people liked it
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
tags:
ignorance
368 people liked it
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
—
Dr. Seuss
tags:
be-yourself
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confidence
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individuality
,
those-who-matter
18,653 people liked it
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
tags:
heaven
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religion
425 people liked it
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
—
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
tags:
corruption
,
dark
,
fighting
,
monsters
,
side
,
soul
378 people liked it
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
—
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
tags:
agama
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agnosticism
,
prayer
,
religion
214 people liked it
"Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
"
—
Chris Rock
84 people liked it
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
—
Golda Meir
tags:
funny
,
golda
,
meir
,
true
190 people liked it
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