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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
860 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
539 people liked it

"What can be explained is not poetry."
— William Butler Yeats

tags: poetry, yeats
17 people liked it

"In dreams begin responsibility."
— William Butler Yeats

4 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)

337 people liked it

"being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."
— Charles Bukowski (Women: A Novel)

tags: women
6 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: perspective, truth
223 people liked it

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

101 people liked it

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"I am one thing, my writings are another."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophy
11 people liked it

"The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: writing
5 people liked it

"I am free and that is why I am lost."
— Franz Kafka

35 people liked it

"Paths are made by walking"
— Franz Kafka

31 people liked it

"Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow"
— T.S. Eliot

14 people liked it

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

22 people liked it

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
— E.M. Forster

tags: advice, e-m-, essay, fiction, forster, writing
51 people liked it

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. "
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: authority, silence
7 people liked it

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
— John Steinbeck

tags: politics, war
131 people liked it

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

tags: death, life
1,642 people liked it

"Life is too short when you think of the length of death"
— Sean Mangan

tags: death, life
45 people liked it

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

tags: birth, death, life
32 people liked it

"The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: freedom, liberty, truth
11 people liked it

"Freedom is never given; it is won."
— A. Philip Randolph

tags: freedom, liberation
7 people liked it

"Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance. "
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: free-will, freedom
4 people liked it

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
— Albert Einstein

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
16 people liked it

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
— Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom
49 people liked it

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
— Aristotle

tags: happiness
210 people liked it

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
— Aristotle

tags: education
80 people liked it

"A friend to all is a friend to none."
— Aristotle

47 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
923 people liked it

"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
— Franz Kafka

tags: darkness
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"It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go."
— Franz Kafka

6 people liked it

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
— Hermann Hesse

47 people liked it

"You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream."
— Hermann Hesse

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"If I know what love is, it is because of you."
— Hermann Hesse

tags: love
29 people liked it

"Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure."
— Hermann Hesse (Wer lieben kann ist glücklich. Über die Liebe.)

tags: love
24 people liked it

"When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults."
— Hermann Hesse (Wer lieben kann ist glücklich. Über die Liebe.)

tags: love
12 people liked it

"Man is what he wills himself to be."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

25 people liked it

"انسان خلاصه ای از آنچه داشته نیست بلکه خلاصه ای است از آنچه هنوز به آن نرسیده خلاصه ای از آنچه میتواند داشته باشد"
— Jean-Paul Sartre

15 people liked it

"من وجود مملکتی را که منکر من است انکار خواهم کرد
(گوشه نشینان آلتونا)"
— Jean-Paul Sartre

5 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,217 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,228 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,845 people liked it

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
— Helen Keller

tags: friendship
1,073 people liked it

"Literature is my Utopia"
— Helen Keller

51 people liked it

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

tags: emotions, feelings
769 people liked it

"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poetry
394 people liked it

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