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#1

“To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

tags: truth, wholeness

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#2

“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

tags: birth, death, intimacy, life, poetry, privacy

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#3

“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

132 likes

#4

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee...”
― Emily Dickinson

379 likes

#5

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177399 likes

#6

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17377 likes

#7

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20204 likes

#8

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

9949 likes

#9

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11908 likes

#10

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

9704 likes

#11

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

8490 likes

#12

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: companionship, privacy, solitude

1111 likes

#13

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

tags: wisdom

1142 likes

#14

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: imagination, reality

449 likes

#15

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

507 likes

#16

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

12570 likes

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