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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: baker-street, chains-of-events, commonplaces-of-existence, cross-purposes, fiction, on-fiction, outre-results, plannings, sherlock-holmes, stale, strange-coincidences, unprofitable
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. ”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    ― Agatha Christie
    tags: inspirational
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Confucius
    “When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”
    ― Confucius
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    Confucius
    “The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”
    (Analects 4.16)”
    ― Confucius
    tags: capitalism, china, consumerism, greed
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    Confucius
    “A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.”
    ― Confucius
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    Kami Garcia
    “Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
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    Stephen Crane
    “When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
    Arrived at the mountain-top
    He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
    I intended to see good white lands
    And bad black lands—
    But the scene is grey.”
    ― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
    tags: black, black-and-white, good-and-evil, gray, grey, knowledge, morality, white, wisdom
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
    tags: betrayal, broken-promise, trust
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    Ellen Hopkins
    “This is unstoppable, no holds barred. This is beautiful. Crazy. A beginning. Betrayal. Addictive. Aggressive. Alive. This is something to be afraid of.”
    ― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout
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    John Green
    “there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: fiction, hazel, john-green, protagonist, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    Derekica Snake
    “...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.”
    ― Derekica Snake, Tentacles for the Brides Bouquet
    tags: betrayal, life-lessons, realization
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    Toba Beta
    “Friendship's enemy is betrayal.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: betrayal, enemy, friendship
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    Jay McInerney
    “Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”
    ― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
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    Fleur Adcock
    “There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
    There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
    committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things
    than not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
    It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in
    and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”
    ― Fleur Adcock
    tags: haunted, insomnia, regrets, thoughts
    99 likes



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