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#1

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#2

“Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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#3

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#4

“If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

tags: knowledge, purpose, wisdom, work

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#5

“How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

tags: humor

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#6

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

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#7

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#8

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#9

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

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#10

“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
― Franz Kafka

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#11

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Edward Abbey

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#12

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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#13

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

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#14

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
― Edward Abbey

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#15

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

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#16

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#17

“Nur ein Idiot glaubt, aus eigenen Erfahrungen zu lernen. Ich ziehe es vor, aus den Erfahrungen anderer zu lernen, um von vorneherein eigene Fehler zu vermeiden.”
― Otto von Bismarck

tags: erfahrungen, experience, fehler, inspirational, lernen, mistakes

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#18

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes

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#20

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope

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#21

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

tags: three-men-in-a-boat

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#22

“I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

tags: kindlehighlight

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#23

“Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

tags: far-from-the-madding-crowd, holiday

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#24

“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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#25

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

tags: solitude

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#26

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery

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#27

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#28

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#29

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#30

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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