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#1

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: memories

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#2

“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#3

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

11456 likes

#4

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: birth, identity, life, self

2571 likes

#5

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#6

“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

63 likes

#7

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

5755 likes

#8

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet, jane-austen

7881 likes

#9

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

1701 likes

#10

“He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect. ”
― Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

22 likes

#11

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: mr-bennet

2253 likes

#12

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

2648 likes

#13

“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

1974 likes

#14

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself. 'There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction: I am sure it will.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#15

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: deception, honesty, relationships, truth

1151 likes

#16

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29746 likes

#17

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: dreams, life

611 likes

#18

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: life

4845 likes

#19

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

7983 likes

#20

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: soul, souls

1822 likes

#21

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

5636 likes

#22

“The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

120 likes

#23

“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: love

124 likes

#24

“Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

144 likes

#25

“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: fate

28 likes

#26

“You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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#27

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational

1951 likes

#28

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
― Aristotle

tags: inspirational

442 likes

#29

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
― Aristotle

tags: adversity, education, learning, old-age, prosperity

231 likes

#30

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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