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#1

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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#2

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

tags: genius, hard-worker

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#3

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

tags: paraphrased

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#4

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

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

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#5

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

tags: wisdom

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#6

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

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#7

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

tags: humor, philosophy

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#8

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

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#9

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#10

“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

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#11

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#12

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

tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased

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#13

“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

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#14

“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

tags: paraphrased, shakespeare

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#15

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

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#16

“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

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#17

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

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#18

“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: clarity, honesty, oscar-wilde, words, writing

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#19

“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

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#20

“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

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#21

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#22

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

tags: humor, life, wisdom

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#23

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

tags: courage, inspirational, strength

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#24

“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

tags: books, people, reading

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#25

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

tags: content, materialism

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#26

“Si hubiera sospechado lo que se oye después de muerto, no me suicido.”
― Oliverio Girondo, Espantapájaros

tags: muerte

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#27

“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

tags: foibles, ideals

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#28

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

tags: ideals

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#29

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

tags: life-lessons

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#30

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
― Émile Zola

tags: art, enterprise, talent, work

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