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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71685 likes

#3

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42028 likes

#4

“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

43886 likes

#5

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

19597 likes

#6

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46492 likes

#7

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37057 likes

#8

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39246 likes

#9

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

28805 likes

#10

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reality

8428 likes

#11

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

3836 likes

#12

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: life

2660 likes

#13

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

2317 likes

#14

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

tags: claire-fraser, historical-fiction, romance, scotland, time-travel

3716 likes

#15

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

7372 likes

#16

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

tags: love, romance

5331 likes

#17

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

4233 likes

#18

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

tags: philosophy

1589 likes

#19

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? ”
― Virginia Woolf

448 likes

#20

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: clouds, star

2022 likes

#21

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

1627 likes

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