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"Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves."
— Pascal Mercier (Night Train to Lisbon)

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"In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom."
— Pascal Mercier

tags: fear, fleeing
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"Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. "
— Pascal Mercier (Night Train to Lisbon)

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"[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity."
— Pascal Mercier (Night Train to Lisbon)

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"Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living."
— Pascal Mercier (Night Train to Lisbon)

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"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
9,634 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
4,405 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,915 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
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"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor
3,038 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: philosophy, poetry
371 people liked it

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: independence, women
224 people liked it

"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."
— Anaïs Nin (Henry and June)

73 people liked it

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: humanity
42 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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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,509 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,602 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

485 people liked it

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: agree
139 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
72 people liked it

"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
— Oscar Wilde

60 people liked it

"Life is too short to learn German"
— Oscar Wilde

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"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde

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"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
— Oscar Wilde

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"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
— Oscar Wilde

26 people liked it

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
— Oscar Wilde

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"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. "
— Oscar Wilde

20 people liked it

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