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#1

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

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

176060 likes

#2

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

150600 likes

#3

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

126725 likes

#4

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

118752 likes

#5

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109053 likes

#6

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101489 likes

#7

“There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

250 likes

#8

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy

1649 likes

#9

“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

552 likes

#10

“Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

382 likes

#11

“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, despair, leo-tolstoy, love, sadness

312 likes

#12

“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

305 likes

#13

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: admiration, anna-karenina, avoiding, flattery, gaze, love, stare, sun, tolstoy

262 likes

#14

“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: adventure, africa, life

267 likes

#15

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: opening-line

93 likes

#16

“There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

59 likes

#17

“Here I am, where I ought to be.”
― Isak Dinesen ( Karen Blixen ), Out of Africa

45 likes

#18

“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

37 likes

#19

“The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

24 likes

#20

“I have conquered them all, but I am standing amongst graves”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

tags: conquer

22 likes

#21

“In a world of fools, I was, I think, to him one of the greater fools.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

23 likes

#22

“There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

tags: control, fate

20 likes

#23

“I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

tags: karenblixen

9 likes

#24

“I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover;”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

2 likes

#25

“Oh no,’ said the moon, ‘time means very little to me.”
― Karen Blixen, OUT OF AFRICA

2 likes

#26

“A real dreamer doesn't enjoy in the contents of the dream but in the fact that events take part in it without their interference and completely out of their power.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

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