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  • #61
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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  • #62
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15046 likes

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  • #63
    Carson McCullers
    “Next to music, beer was best.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: drinking, music
    1443 likes

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  • #64
    Carson McCullers
    “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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  • #65
    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #66
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
    4140 likes

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  • #67
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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  • #68
    Knut Hamsun
    “I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

    And which do you love best?

    The dream.”
    ― Knut Hamsun, Pan
    281 likes

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  • #69
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #70
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: inspirational, life, work
    2356 likes

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  • #71
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #72
    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    ― Philip Roth
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  • #73
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
    12670 likes

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  • #74
    Yasunari Kawabata
    “Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata
    1617 likes

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  • #75
    Yasunari Kawabata
    “As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
    1106 likes

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  • #76
    Yasunari Kawabata
    “Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata
    tags: beauty-and-sadness
    275 likes

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  • #77
    Joseph Roth
    “A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”
    ― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March
    245 likes

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  • #78
    Gershom Scholem
    “We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.”
    ― Gershom Scholem
    26 likes

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  • #79
    Robert Walser
    “Ultimately, the most romantic thing is the heart, and every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls.”
    ― Robert Walser, The Walk and Other Stories
    tags: heart
    124 likes

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  • #80
    George Steiner
    “Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.”
    ― George Steiner
    tags: books
    209 likes

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  • #81
    George Steiner
    “when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
    ― Steiner G
    tags: language, linguistics, memory, philosophy, world
    143 likes

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  • #82
    Augusto Monterroso
    “When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.”
    ― Augusto Monterroso
    32 likes

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  • #83
    Augusto Monterroso
    “Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. ”
    ― Augusto Monterroso, Cuentos
    27 likes

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  • #84
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: answers, man, questions, thinking
    4618 likes

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  • #85
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
    3871 likes

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  • #86
    Friedrich Hölderlin
    “But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”
    ― Friedrich Hölderlin
    80 likes

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  • #87
    Friedrich Hölderlin
    “You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.”
    ― Friedrich Hölderlin
    71 likes

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  • #88
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
    “Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
    ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
    141 likes

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  • #89
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
    “The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.”
    ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
    84 likes

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  • #90
    Emil M. Cioran
    “A book is a suicide postponed.”
    ― Cioran
    tags: suicide, writing
    964 likes



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