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#1

“If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

tags: sex, sexuality

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#2

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

tags: inspirational

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#3

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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#4

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

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#5

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie

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#6

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

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#7

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: self-confidence

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#8

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

tags: books, time

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#9

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

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#10

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#11

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#12

“It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.”
― Ian McEwan

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#13

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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#14

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4616 likes

#15

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

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#16

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

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#17

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#18

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#19

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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#20

“Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

tags: home-town, homesick, old-life

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#21

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

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#22

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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#23

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#24

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#25

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

tags: inspirational, missed-chances

3411 likes

#26

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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#27

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

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#28

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

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#29

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

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#30

“Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”
― Charles Lamb

tags: new-years

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