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"Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us."
— J.G. Ballard

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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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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,288 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
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"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books
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"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books
357 people liked it

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, reading
301 people liked it

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, soul
105 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,174 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,229 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
435 people liked it

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: writing
351 people liked it

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: men, rescuing, women
375 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,533 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
12,467 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,268 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,879 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
9,785 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,563 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,405 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,253 people liked it

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

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,136 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,584 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,695 people liked it

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,858 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,510 people liked it

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
879 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
444 people liked it

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

tags: heaven, religion
427 people liked it

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
— Albert Camus

tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
857 people liked it

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
755 people liked it

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
510 people liked it

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
— Albert Camus

tags: coffee, sucide
179 people liked it

"Live to the point of tears."
— Albert Camus

tags: life, living
495 people liked it

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
— Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing
154 people liked it

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
— Albert Camus

tags: judgement, life, religion
127 people liked it

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
— Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
137 people liked it

"I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
— Albert Camus

tags: atheism, god, religion
64 people liked it

""To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.""
— E. E. Cummings

tags: self
1 person liked it

"If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength.)"
— Roland Barthes (A Lover's Discourse: Fragments)

6 people liked it

"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."
— Simon Schama (Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations)

4 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
3,300 people liked it

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
— Jane Austen (Persuasion)

247 people liked it

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency
9 people liked it

"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
— Jane Austen

tags: amusement, commentary, humor, snark
22 people liked it

"Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us."
— Emil Cioran

tags: misanthropy, philosophy
5 people liked it

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."
— Shirley Maclaine

tags: courage
10 people liked it

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: ethics, vegetarianism
10 people liked it

"The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return."
— Simone de Beauvoir

4 people liked it

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