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"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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— James Joyce- Dubliners

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""“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" - "
— Umberto Eco

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""“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent to me”""
— Anatole France

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""Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”"
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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""The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense." "
— Vladimir Nabokov

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""Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.""
— Thomas Pynchon

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""The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful." "
— Fyodor Dostoyevsy

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""It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude" "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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""I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death" "
— Apollinaire

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"It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
— Leonard Cohen- The stranger song

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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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"I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER"."
— Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me)

tags: clique, clubs, humor, membership
412 people liked it

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: children, humor, parents
340 people liked it

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life
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"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd, humor, music
245 people liked it

"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word."
— Andrew Jackson

tags: humor, intelligence, spelling
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"A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die."
— Franz Kafka

tags: absurd
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"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
— Albert Einstein

tags: absurd, hope, idea
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"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: spiritual
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