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#1

“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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#2

“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

148476 likes

#3

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

tags: life

109367 likes

#4

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#6

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#7

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#8

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#9

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3888 likes

#10

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

2170 likes

#11

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#12

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#13

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life

1042 likes

#15

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: bravery, perseverance

638 likes

#16

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17089 likes

#17

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

1909 likes

#18

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

7859 likes

#19

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

4829 likes

#20

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: life

3392 likes

#21

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: children

1674 likes

#22

“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

tags: reflection, war, wwi

165 likes

#23

“This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

tags: war

44 likes

#24

“But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

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#25

“There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

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#26

“I don’t know your life history, but I think children need to believe in powers outside themselves. That’s why they read books about witches and wizards and God knows what. There is a human need for that which childhood normally exhausts. But if a child’s world is broken up by too much reality, that need goes underground.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

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