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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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    Albert Einstein
    “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
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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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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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Harlan Ellison
    “I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
    Adult. You have become adult.”
    ― Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions
    tags: inspirational, pain, philosophy
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    Harlan Ellison
    “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “The best revenge is living well without you. ”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: life
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
    tags: logic, love
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: kiss, love, nature
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I have drunken deep of joy,
    And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley
    tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains
    tags: common-sense, wisdom
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “What if you slept
    And what if
    In your sleep
    You dreamed
    And what if
    In your dream
    You went to heaven
    And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
    And what if
    When you awoke
    You had that flower in your hand
    Ah, what then?”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems
    tags: dreams, poetry
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Water, water, everywhere,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, everywhere,
    Nor any drop to drink.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    tags: poetry, sea
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    Matthew Arnold
    “Ah, love, let us be true
    To one another! for the world, which seems
    To lie before us like a land of dreams,
    So various, so beautiful, so new,
    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
    Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
    And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
    ― Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems
    tags: life, love, pain, poetry, struggle
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    Matthew Arnold
    “Come to me in my dreams, and then
    By day I shall be well again!
    For so the night will more than pay
    The hopeless longings of the day.”
    ― Matthew Arnold, Longing
    tags: dreams, love, love-story, reality
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    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
    3233 likes



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