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    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    ― Joseph Brodsky
    tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    164771 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “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
    147968 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135108 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101489 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    91930 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Jack Kerouac
    “My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: failure, passion
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
    5442 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    المهدي المنجرة
    “لا توجد أي دولة في العالم انطلقت في المجال التكنولوجي دون الاعتماد على اللغة الأم.”
    ― Mahdi Elmandjra, قيمة القيم
    tags: language, science
    79 likes

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    Boris Vian
    “Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.”
    ― Boris Vian, L'écume des jours
    tags: favourite-quotes
    56 likes

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    Terence
    “The less my hope, the hotter my love”
    ― Terence
    tags: roman
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    Henry Peter Brougham
    “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
    ― Henry Peter Brougham
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    المهدي المنجرة
    “تنبع الإهانة من إرادة واعية في التعدي على كرامة الآخرين، وليس فقط من الهيمنة. إنها أحد الأمور الأكثر انتشاراً اليوم عالمياً بفضل مستخدميها ومن يحافظون عليها. وهو الأمر الذي يثير الأقل فالأقل من السخط من جانب الحكومات والشعوب المُهَانة نفسها أو من طرف الرأي العالمي والدولي.”
    ― Mahdi Elmandjra, Humiliation à l'ère du méga-impérialisme
    tags: الإهانة
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
    14694 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: books, garden, reading
    1156 likes

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    Algernon Charles Swinburne
    “Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.”
    ― Algernon Charles Swinburne
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    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    ― Russell Banks, Continental Drift
    tags: books
    1744 likes

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    Julia Child
    “Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
    ― Julia Child
    1531 likes

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  • #25
    O. Henry
    “Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
    ― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
    773 likes

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    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    ― Tom Clancy
    tags: read
    1447 likes

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    Samuel Beckett
    “Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
    2306 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    3270 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: characters, dreams, touchstones
    2399 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
    4131 likes



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