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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,530 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,005 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
9,312 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
6,798 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,546 people liked it

"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
4,963 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,418 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,631 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
2,938 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,033 people liked it

"Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life."
— Franz Kafka

28 people liked it

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

38 people liked it

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophy
243 people liked it

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
— André Gide

tags: integrity
18 people liked it

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
— André Gide

13 people liked it

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company."
— André Gide

3 people liked it

"Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd
13 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
411 people liked it

"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing"
— Pablo Picasso

13 people liked it

"“It takes a very long time to become young.” "
— Pablo Picasso

20 people liked it

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
— Richard Dawkins

200 people liked it

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
— Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)

tags: religion
129 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
6,110 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
347 people liked it

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures"
— Oscar Wilde

41 people liked it

"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."
— Samuel Beckett (Endgame)

18 people liked it

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
— Edgar Allan Poe

35 people liked it

"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat)

tags: dreaming, dreams, insanity, sanity
25 people liked it

"Art needs an operation"
— Tristan Tzara (Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries)

2 people liked it

"Always destroy what is in you."
— Tristan Tzara (Oeuvres complètes)

3 people liked it

"You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously."
— Tristan Tzara

7 people liked it

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