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#1

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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#2

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

tags: intent, pain, suicide

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#3

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.”
― August Strindberg

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#4

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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#5

“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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#6

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

tags: books, humor

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#7

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#8

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#9

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#10

“I made you beautiful,” Emory said again, again. “You keep saying that,” Ama answered. “But I did not ask for your beauty. I made beauty all on my own. I did not need you then.”
― Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

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#11

“Alex watched in the mirror as her history spilled over her skin. The scars she had chosen for herself. We are the shepherds. The time for that was done. Better to be a rattler. Better to be a jackal.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

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#12

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

tags: chauvinism, misogyny, projection, sexism

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#13

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

tags: doubt, truth

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#14

“The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.”
― Richard Needham

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#15

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#16

“The rich refuse to send the elevator back down when they reach the top.”
― Rémy Ngamije, The Eternal Audience of One

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#17

“Forgive before they do, and nothing can get to you.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

tags: acceptance, anxiety, compassion, forgiveness, healing, inspirational, liberation, peace, resilience, trauma

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