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  • #1
    Herman Melville
    “I would prefer not to.”
    Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

  • #2
    Kathleen Winsor
    “The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
    Kathleen Winsor

  • #3
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
    “The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #6
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #7
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #8
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

  • #9
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”
    William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #16
    Hermann Hesse
    “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #17
    Orson Welles
    “A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”
    Orson Welles

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

  • #20
    Michael Moorcock
    “What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
    Michael Moorcock

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    Charles Schultz

  • #23
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #24
    Maureen Corrigan
    “It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
    Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

  • #25
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    “To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

  • #26
    Oliverio Girondo
    “Si hubiera sospechado lo que se oye después de muerto, no me suicido.”
    Oliverio Girondo, Espantapájaros
    tags: muerte

  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

  • #28
    Norman Douglas
    “You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
    Norman Douglas

  • #29
    Joe  Hill
    “You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”
    Joe Hill, Horns

  • #30
    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    Émile Zola



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