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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: charity, compassion, generosity
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
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  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: poetry
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  • #12
    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-roles, suffrage, womens-rights
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: common-sense, mistakes, paradox, timidity, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, benevolence, epigram, reputation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: epigram
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    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is too short to learn German”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “What of Art?
    -It is a malady.
    --Love?
    -An Illusion.
    --Religion?
    -The fashionable substitute for Belief.
    --You are a sceptic.
    -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
    --What are you?
    -To define is to limit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Charles Bukowski
    “permanent living peace is
    permanent living death.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
    tags: death, peace
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    Charles Bukowski
    “for me
    obedience to another is the decay of self.

    for though every being is similar
    each being is different

    and to herd our differences
    under one law
    degrades each self.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
    tags: individuality
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  • #24
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: catholic-author, catholicism, miracles, science
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: dare, power
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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