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"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: life
40 people liked it

"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

47 people liked it

"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."
— Stanley Kubrick

tags: education, fear, interest
36 people liked it

"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure. "
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

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"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."
— Thomas Mann

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"If we don't find anything pleasant, well at least find something new."
— Voltaire (Candide)

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"Imagination is intelligence with an erection"
— Victor Hugo

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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
813 people liked it

"So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

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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
7,563 people liked it

"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: art, artists, creativity, writers, writing
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"There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. "
— Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

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"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
777 people liked it

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: wisdom
29 people liked it

"'I should like to know which is worse: to be raped a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgars, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
'That is a hard question,' said Candide."
— Voltaire (Candide, or Optimism)

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"In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."
— Tom Waits

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"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

tags: fuck, music, profanity, rock
324 people liked it

"Imgination rules the world"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art, imagination
43 people liked it

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. "
— Fran Lebowitz

tags: algebra, education, humor, mathematics
211 people liked it

"The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity
47 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,042 people liked it

"They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby & The Diamond as Big as the Ritz)

tags: friendship, gatsby
17 people liked it

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"
— Alan Bennett (The History Boys: The Film)

tags: books, history, reading
345 people liked it

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."
— Robert Orben

tags: humour, politics, truth
343 people liked it

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth, wisdom
75 people liked it

"cake or death?"
— Eddie Izzard

41 people liked it

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. "
— Niccolò Machiavelli

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"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: heaven, religion
412 people liked it

"Common sense is not so common."
— Voltaire

tags: common, sense
104 people liked it

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
— Voltaire

28 people liked it

"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

tags: family, friendship, humor
314 people liked it

"What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. "
— Gustave Flaubert

9 people liked it

"Said Candide to Cacambo:
"My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue, and the happiness of seeing Cunegonde once more.""
— Voltaire

2 people liked it

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, sinister
2,027 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
344 people liked it

"We must cultivate our garden "
— Voltaire (Candide, or Optimism)

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"Our labour keeps us from three great evils—boredom, vice, and want."
— Voltaire (Candide, or Optimism)

7 people liked it

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

tags: food, humor
701 people liked it

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
— Paul Sweeney

995 people liked it

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
— Theodore Roosevelt

75 people liked it

"A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime."
— John Hodgman (More Information Than You Require)

7 people liked it

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry
1,044 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

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."
— Theodore Roosevelt

83 people liked it

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
— George W. Bush

tags: books, dumb, reading
223 people liked it

"History is written by the winners"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history
29 people liked it

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?"
— Chris Rock

tags: comedy, everyday, funny, humor, life, observational
513 people liked it

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

tags: life
849 people liked it

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