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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
— Anaïs Nin

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"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais, art, nin
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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
— Anaïs Nin

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
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"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, knowledge
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"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: life, surrealistic
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"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
338 people liked it

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, taste
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"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art
123 people liked it

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: friendship
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures"
— Oscar Wilde

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"I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
— Oscar Wilde

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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: pleasure
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"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
— Oscar Wilde

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"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is visible, not invisible."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: againt, interpretation-
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"To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: medocrity, popular
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"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, love, marriage
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"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,774 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,610 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
943 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing
233 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,624 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time
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"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
337 people liked it

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, imagination, reality
166 people liked it

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
— John Lennon

tags: art, beatles, confidence, ego, music
80 people liked it

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
— John Lennon

75 people liked it

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
— John Lennon

tags: friends
51 people liked it

"Give peace a chance."
— John Lennon

tags: peace
34 people liked it

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
— John Lennon

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"Everybody loves you when you re six foot in the ground."
— John Lennon

tags: death, love
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"Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
— John Lennon

tags: ego, god, life, loser
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"When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care."
— John Lennon

15 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
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"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,912 people liked it

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: dumbledore
837 people liked it

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: pain
394 people liked it

"It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: lies, truth-
328 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
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,223 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,521 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
5,566 people liked it

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