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    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    tags: life
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
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    Albert Einstein
    “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: advice, albert-einstein
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”
    ― Jean Paul Sartre
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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  • #7
    “The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.”
    ― William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach
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    “Malicious gossip is the death of the soul.”
    ― Peter France, Hermits; The Insights of Solitude
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
    tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights
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    Franz Kafka
    “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
    tags: cockroaches, first-sentence, insects, transformation
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    William Shakespeare
    “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: inspirational
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    “The task of destruction is infinitely easier than that of creation.”
    ― Borden Deal, Antaeus
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    Plato
    “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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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Obsessions are the only things that matter.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: autism, matter, meaning, obsessions
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    Salvador Dalí
    “The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: insanity, sanity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: an-ideal-husband, oscar-wilde
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    Edith Sitwell
    “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence
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    “So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
    ― R. Arnold
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    Paul Auster
    “Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.”
    ― Paul Auster, City of Glass
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France
    tags: books, introvert, solitude
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    Émile Zola
    “We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
    ― Émile Zola
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    Holger Drachmann
    “Naar vi skal være rørstrømsk —
    saa er det bedst vi faar Musik dertil.”
    ― Holger Drachmann
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
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    Robert Frost
    “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: new-england-wisdom
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    Kamo no Chōmei
    “Idet jeg kender mig selv og verden,
    har jeg ingen ambitioner
    og blander mig ikke i verden.
    Jeg søger kun sindsro og fred
    og jeg glædes over fravær af sorger.”
    ― Kamo no Chōmei
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