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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,115 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,181 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,760 people liked it

"It's pain that changes our lives."
— Steve Martin (Shopgirl: A Novella)

83 people liked it

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
— Steve Martin

51 people liked it

"I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart."
— Steve Martin (The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel)

tags: love
38 people liked it

"I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth. "
— Steve Martin

23 people liked it

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor
14 people liked it

"Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life."
— Steve Martin (Shopgirl: A Novella)

7 people liked it

"I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

tags: inspiration, love, people, story
86 people liked it

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "
— Victor Hugo

tags: courage, inspirational
183 people liked it

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
— Victor Hugo

149 people liked it

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

tags: attraction, love
155 people liked it

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

70 people liked it

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

tags: thought, work
52 people liked it

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

34 people liked it

"Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

19 people liked it

"Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

tags: history, study
13 people liked it

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

13 people liked it

"There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
— Leonard Cohen

121 people liked it

"After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances."
— Robert Hass

6 people liked it

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: books, reading
2,092 people liked it

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

tags: life
907 people liked it

"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: death
495 people liked it

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents
182 people liked it

"They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
— Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)

142 people liked it

"Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

tags: misery
73 people liked it

"Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course."
— Lemony Snicket (The Blank Book)

tags: tradition
69 people liked it

"Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?"
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fear
57 people liked it

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