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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#3

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#4

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

tags: humor

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#5

“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

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#6

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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#7

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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#8

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#9

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

tags: inspirational, life

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#10

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#11

“(...)que morrer é acabar e amor não tem saída(...)”
― Gil Vicente, O Velho Da Horta

tags: death, life, love, tragedy

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#12

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

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#13

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

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#14

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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#15

“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves

tags: robert-graves

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#16

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#17

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#18

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

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#19

“Marcela amou-me durante quinze meses e onze contos de réis”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

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#20

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

tags: life, loss

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#21

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#22

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: literature

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#23

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#24

“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: friendship

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#25

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: greatness

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#26

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#27

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#28

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: love, mercy

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#29

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

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#30

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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