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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: infinity, perception

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#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#3

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#4

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#5

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#6

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: creation, god, humor, man

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#7

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#8

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

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#9

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

tags: life, paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll

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#10

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky and Other Poems

tags: alice, carroll, jabberwock, jabberwocky, lewis, wonderland

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#11

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

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#12

“It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.”
― Woody Allen

tags: absurd

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#13

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex

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#14

“Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.”
― Woody Allen

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#15

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader

tags: life

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#16

“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”
― Woody Allen

tags: self-deprecating, woody-allen

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#17

“I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.”
― Woody Allen

tags: absurd

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#18

“I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor

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#19

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”
― Woody Allen

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#20

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

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#21

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: qotd

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#22

“Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: internet, trolls

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#23

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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#24

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#25

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

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#26

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

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#27

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#28

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#29

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#30

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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