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#1

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

#2

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93675 likes

#3

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77834 likes

#4

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78478 likes

#5

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

177598 likes

#6

“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

tags: appearance, darkness, dreams, reality

137 likes

#7

“Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.”
― Giovanni Boccaccio

18 likes

#8

“To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. ”
― Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron

97 likes

#9

“people can die of mere imagination”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

174 likes

#10

“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
― Aphra Behn, The Rover

tags: distance, love, travel, voyage

5 likes

#11

“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”
― Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

19 likes

#12

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1814 likes

#13

“Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

10 likes

#14

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

tags: inspirational

1716 likes

#15

“Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

67 likes

#16

“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: irony, reality

63 likes

#17

“But does it really help if a person doesn't realize what he lacks, or, if he does, he insists that he doesn't need it at all? That's an illusion, a fantasy. Human nature is stifled by reason, circumstances, and pride. It keeps silent and doesn't make itself known to one's consciousness, all the while silently doing its work of undermining life.”
― Nikolai Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?

19 likes

#18

“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

tags: life, literature

56 likes

#19

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

5658 likes

#20

“There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.”
― Arthur Schnitzler

36 likes

#21

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31564 likes

#22

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: writing

1220 likes

#23

“การทำหนังสือหรือสำนักพิมพ์ไม่ใช่การทำงานบนหน้ากระดาษเพียงอย่างเดียว มันคือการเรียนรู้การดำเนินชีวิต คุณทำหนังสือแบบไหน กรุณาทำให้ชีวิตของคุณใกล้เคียงกับหนังสือที่คุณทำมาเท่าที่จะทำได้”
― ปิยะวิทย์ เทพอำนวยสกุล

tags: life, publishers

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#24

“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: sanity, self-image

32 likes

#25

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: reading

1095 likes

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