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"All art is quite useless. "
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: art
68 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,463 people liked it

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way"
— Marcel Proust

15 people liked it

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom
352 people liked it

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun"
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
105 people liked it

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
718 people liked it

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing
1,915 people liked it

"Courage is grace under pressure."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: courage
179 people liked it

"Isn't it pretty to think so."
— Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)

70 people liked it

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
690 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,640 people liked it

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

tags: art, truth
428 people liked it

"It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for."
— Marcel Proust

tags: 1871-1922, french, writer
35 people liked it

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
— Marcel Proust

98 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
770 people liked it

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
— Oscar Wilde

66 people liked it

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

tags: truth
1,543 people liked it

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
— Oscar Wilde

67 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
579 people liked it

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

tags: education, fashion
1,340 people liked it

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
710 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,243 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,080 people liked it

"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."
— Oscar Wilde

41 people liked it

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

tags: life
4,323 people liked it

"One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: friend, judge
68 people liked it

"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
— Ani DiFranco

tags: art, life
70 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,198 people liked it

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

tags: america, books, politics
1,027 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,398 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
2,687 people liked it

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

tags: books, reading
339 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom
1,365 people liked it

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
703 people liked it

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

tags: books
318 people liked it

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
— Robert Frost

tags: poetry
265 people liked it

"So eager are our people to obliterate the present."
— Franz Kafka

17 people liked it

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
586 people liked it

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
— Voltaire

204 people liked it

"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
— Charlotte Brontë (The Letters of Charlotte Bronte)

tags: inspirational
110 people liked it

"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

84 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,928 people liked it

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,474 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,661 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
5,811 people liked it

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
878 people liked it

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
— John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

tags: life, words
1,243 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,422 people liked it

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

tags: life
856 people liked it

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox
172 people liked it

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