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#1

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

tags: nature, poetry, solitude

2883 likes

#2

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

2548 likes

#3

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: classic, drama, fiction, nick-carraway

1234 likes

#4

“...where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting”
― Jane Austen, Lady Susan

14 likes

#5

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

6120 likes

#6

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

3019 likes

#7

“There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

219 likes

#8

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”
― Mark Twain

tags: false-attribution, san-francisco

53 likes

#9

“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

698 likes

#10

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain

tags: whiskey

293 likes

#11

“Two rights don't equal a left.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

572 likes

#12

“De buenos propósitos está empedrado el Infierno.”
― Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

2 likes

#13

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: better

2056 likes

#14

“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: philosophy-of-life

12 likes

#15

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: demographics

3104 likes

#16

“A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: communal-life, fremen-saying

48 likes

#17

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

407 likes

#18

“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

tags: freedom, locke-lamora, underestimated

1077 likes

#19

“There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#20

“ I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."

"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that’s the definition of 'family' right there.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

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#21

“You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

77 likes

#22

“Women and music should not be dated.”
― Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease

21 likes

#23

“had said at the reconciliation meeting, that anger against a kinsman was felt in the flesh, not in the marrow”
― Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease

2 likes

#24

“There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

25 likes

#25

“Partid los días de año entre las que ahí encontráis. Uno para enamorarlas, otro para conseguirlas, otro para abandonarlas, dos para sustituirlas, y una hora para olvidarlas.”
― José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio

1 likes

#26

“Manners that would keep you starving are no manners worth respecting.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: life, manners

7 likes

#27

“Tal ves temía que ese grandioso amor, que había resistido tantas pruebas, no pudiera sobrevivir a la más terrible de todas: la convivencia.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

tags: amor-convivencia

21 likes

#28

“What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can," Edric said.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

2 likes

#29

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

1470 likes

#30

“Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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