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#1

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

2488 likes

#2

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

13395 likes

#3

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: astrology, attributed-no-source, humor, skepticism

423 likes

#4

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21433 likes

#5

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: humor, science

4306 likes

#6

“Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard

tags: beautiful

210 likes

#7

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: alcohol, bulgakov, cats, vodka

409 likes

#8

“I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.”
― Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

tags: angel, ape, fallen, fellow, fellow-man

55 likes

#9

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.”
― Desmond Morris

46 likes

#10

“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: morality, organized-religion, religion

308 likes

#11

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: science, science-fiction

693 likes

#12

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

1760 likes

#13

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

4056 likes

#14

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

6537 likes

#15

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43891 likes

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