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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am dying beyond my means”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935
    tags: chocolate, dessert, humour
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    Jacques Torres
    “Life is short. Eat dessert first. ”
    ― Jacques Torres
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    Djuna Barnes
    “A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
    ― Djuna Barnes
    tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self
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  • #9
    “Want to make a splash? Part the Red Sea.”
    ― Harvey Specter Suits
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    Hock G. Tjoa
    “One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.”
    ― Hock G. Tjoa, Agamemnon Must Die
    tags: humanity, power
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    Hock G. Tjoa
    “Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?”
    ― Hock G. Tjoa, Agamemnon Must Die
    tags: distopian, humanism, social-order
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    Hock G. Tjoa
    “We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.”
    ― Hock G. Tjoa, The Ingenious Judge Dee
    tags: honor, loyalty, tradition
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    Hock G. Tjoa
    “Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.”
    ― Hock G. Tjoa, The Ingenious Judge Dee
    tags: false-accusations, morality, reputation
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    Hock G. Tjoa
    “Neither a gossip or a busybody, Mother Bo took a keen interest in the aches and pains of the entire village, and she was indefatigable.”
    ― Hock G. Tjoa, The Chinese Spymaster
    tags: humor
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    Hock G. Tjoa
    “from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequence of the one child policy, he and his wife, like most of his generation and those succeeding, consisted of only children; hence his family included no aunts or uncles, no cousins, and no nieces or nephews. The Chinese family had lost an immeasurable dimension of richness.”
    ― Hock G. Tjoa
    tags: cousins, extended-family, unintended-consequences
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    Blaise Pascal
    “The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
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    Yahtzee Croshaw
    “So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.”
    ― Yahtzee Croshaw
    tags: america, americans, funny, superheroes
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “This dewdrop world
    Is but a dewdrop world
    And yet —”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: poetry
    28 likes



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