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#1

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

1563 likes

#3

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

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#4

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#5

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

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#6

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

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#7

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

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#8

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

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#9

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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#10

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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#11

“Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
― Martin Amis

656 likes

#12

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

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#13

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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#14

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3874 likes

#15

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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#16

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

1405 likes

#17

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

3228 likes

#18

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

6598 likes

#19

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6647 likes

#20

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

tags: inspirational

2468 likes

#21

“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
― Henry Green

1018 likes

#22

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

3145 likes

#23

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3589 likes

#24

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

1819 likes

#25

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

tags: books, reading

3773 likes

#26

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

1394 likes

#27

“The future has an ancient heart.”
― Carlo Levi

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#28

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

3640 likes

#29

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

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#30

“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

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