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#1

“Look, we are getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems... Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

tags: humanity, logical-thinking

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#2

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

tags: interests, personality, values

1933 likes

#3

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

1346 likes

#4

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

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

177117 likes

#5

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148426 likes

#6

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135518 likes

#7

“Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.”
― Karin Fossum, Broken

18 likes

#8

“Don't let anyone tell you that introverts are anti-social - we are just differently social.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts

tags: humanity-inspirational, self-help, self-improvement

8 likes

#9

“The truth is that no one lives off the truth and that's why no one cares about the truth. The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold.”
― Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen

tags: harry-hole, jo-nesbo, the-bat

7 likes

#10

“I suppose you think it strange that people can walk around smiling on a day like today...I suppose you take it as a personal affront that the sun is playing on the leaves at a time when you'd rather see the world collapse in misery and weep tears. Well, Harry, my friend, what can I say to you? Things aren't like that.”
― Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen

tags: harry-hole, jo-nesbo, the-bat

5 likes

#11

“A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State.”
― James Baldwin, Dark Days

tags: politics, race-and-racism-in-america

4 likes

#12

“Éanlaith an aeir, beithígh na coillte, éisc na habhann is na farraige - bráithre dúinn iad siúd ar fad.”
― Pádraic Pearse, Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh

tags: irish-language, nationalism, nature

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