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“The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.”
― Humphrey Bogart

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Criticism is a privilege that you earn — it shouldn’t be your opening move in an interaction…”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“No amount of belief makes something a fact.”
― James Randi

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
― Georg Hegel

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office