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#1

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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#2

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#3

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#4

“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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#5

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#6

“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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#7

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

tags: new-england-wisdom

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#8

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

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#9

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

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#10

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

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#11

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

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#12

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

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#13

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

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#14

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

tags: aspirations, desires, fantasy, inner-life

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