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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
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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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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    ― Charles M. Schulz
    tags: humor, mankind, people
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Karen Blixen
    “Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
    ― Isak Dinesen
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Douglas Adams
    “You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
    "Why, what did she tell you?"
    "I don't know, I didn't listen.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: arthur-dent
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: living
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: love
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    John Fowles
    “The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

    "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

    "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
    tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war
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    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    tags: art, artists
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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