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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
    ― Atwood H. Townsend
    tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance
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    Roberto Bolaño
    “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
    ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
    tags: books, reading
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    Charles William Eliot
    “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
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    José Saramago
    “Los únicos interesados en cambiar el mundo son los pesimistas, porque los optimistas están encantados con lo que hay.”
    ― José Saramago
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    José Saramago
    “la ceguera es una cuestión privada entra la persona y los ojos con que nació.”
    ― José Saramago
    tags: ceguera
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    José Saramago
    “De esa masa estamos hechos, mitad indiferencia y mitad ruindad.”
    ― José Saramago
    tags: hombre
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    José Saramago
    “La dura experiencia de la vida nos ha demostrado que no es aconsejable confiar demasiado en la naturaleza humana, en general.”
    ― José Saramago (El Viaje del Elefante)
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    José Saramago
    “Pobres tus padres, pobre tú, cuando os encontréis, ciegos de ojos, ciegos de sentimientos, porque los sentimientos con que hemos vivido y que nos hicieron vivir como éramos, nacieron de los ojos que teníamos, sin ojos serán diferentes los sentimientos, no sabemos cómo, no sabemos cuáles, tú dices que estamos muertos porque estamos ciegos, ahí está.”
    ― Jose Saramago, Blindness
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    José Saramago
    “Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.”
    ― José Saramago
    tags: humor
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
    tags: cruelty, fear, superstition
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Beware the man of a single book.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation
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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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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    John Steinbeck
    “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: corruption, fear, life, power
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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: capital-punishment, crime, death, justice, punishment
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    Cornel West
    “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
    ― Cornel West
    tags: justice, love, society, wisdom
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: evil, justice, means-justifying-the-ends, society
    115 likes



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