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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
—
George Gordon Byron
tags:
life
64 people liked it
"Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."
—
George Gordon Byron
tags:
laughter
,
medicine
22 people liked it
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
—
Groucho Marx
tags:
books
,
humor
,
reading
,
television
2,947 people liked it
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
—
Groucho Marx
357 people liked it
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
—
Karl Marx
19 people liked it
"Religion is the Opiate of the Masses."
—
Karl Marx
(
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
)
tags:
philosophical
25 people liked it
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
—
George Orwell
tags:
language
,
politics
233 people liked it
"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
—
George Orwell
(
1984
)
tags:
freedom
,
ignorance
,
inspirational
,
war
218 people liked it
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
—
Salvador Dalí
12 people liked it
"Do you hate people?
I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
—
Charles Bukowski
(
The Movie: Barfly
)
365 people liked it
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
—
Charles Bukowski
70 people liked it
"Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste."
—
Charles Bukowski
22 people liked it
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."
—
Karl Marx
tags:
politic
44 people liked it
"Sólo salgo para renovar la necesidad de estar solo."
—
George Gordon Byron
1 person liked it
"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!"
—
Auguste Rodin
4 people liked it
"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
"
—
Frida Kahlo
tags:
paint
29 people liked it
"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim."
—
Frida Kahlo
33 people liked it
"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
—
Pablo Picasso
50 people liked it
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
—
Pablo Picasso
tags:
art
,
truth
443 people liked it
"El sabio no dice todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice."
—
Aristóteles
1 person liked it
"Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita."
—
Aristóteles
1 person liked it
"El hombre ha nacido libre y por doquiera se encuentra sujeto con cadenas."
—
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2 people liked it
"La sociedad pervierte al ser humano."
—
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1 person liked it
"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece"
—
Vladimir Nabokov
(
Lolita
)
tags:
life
44 people liked it
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
—
Vladimir Nabokov
(
Lolita
)
tags:
amazing
,
writing
122 people liked it
"A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession."
— E. M. Cioran (
A Short History of Decay
)
3 people liked it
"If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot."
—
Émile Michel Cioran
7 people liked it
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