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    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: loneliness
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    Aldous Huxley
    “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: self-improvement
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: genius-children
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Aldous Huxley
    “...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Island
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Pain was a fascinating horror”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: pain
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
    ― anthony burgess
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    Anthony Burgess
    “But what I do I do because I like to do.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Each man kills the thing he loves.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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    Anthony Burgess
    “We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed
    tags: free-will, government, oppression, state
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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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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    Anne Frank
    “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: anne, beauty, frank, happy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: truth
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