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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    ― Nick Hornby
    tags: films, music, relationships
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “La historia no es más que una sucesión de monstruos o de víctimas. O de testigos.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
    tags: historia, palahniuk, rant
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    Woody Allen
    “To you, I'm an atheist.
    To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: absurd, atheism, humor
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    Nick Hornby
    “I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: music, sad
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    Antonio Orejudo
    “¿A vosotros no os inquietan los vegetales? Siempre tan silenciosos, tan dóciles y sin embargo tan nutritivos, como si tramaran algo”
    ― Antonio Orejudo
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
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    Daniel Pennac
    “El tiempo de leer, como el tiempo de amar, dilatan el tiempo de vivir.”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: amar, leer, tiempo, vivir
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
    1913 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
    13997 likes

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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    Karen Blixen
    “Do you know a cure for me?"

    "Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

    "Salt water?" I asked him.

    "Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    ― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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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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    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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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “- È uno strano dolore.
    Piano.
    - Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.”
    ― Alessandro Baricco
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say”
    ― Alessandro Baricco, Silk
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “To die of yearning for something you will never experience”
    ― Alessandro Baricco, Silk
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    Alessandro Baricco
    “It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you will never live.”
    ― Alessandro Baricco, Silk
    tags: books
    251 likes

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    Enric González
    “Las urbanizaciones de casas iguales para gente igual que piensa igual generan ignorancia y paranoia, lo dos males contemporáneos de Estados Unidos”
    ― Enric González, Historias de Nueva York
    tags: crónica, eeuu, sociedad
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    ― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
    tags: writing-words
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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
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    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    ― Henry Miller
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