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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Maurizio de Giovanni
    “Lo sai che penso? Che è facile stare insieme quando va tutto bene. Il difficile è quando si devono superare le montagne, fa freddo e tira vento. Allora, forse, per trovare calore, uno si deve fare un poco più vicino. Te lo dice uno che campa nel freddo. E che non ha nessuno per trovare calore.”
    ― Maurizio de Giovanni, La condanna del sangue: La primavera del commissario Ricciardi
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “Il vero luogo natio è quello dove per la prima volta si è posato uno sguardo consapevole su se stessi: la mia prima patria sono stati i libri.”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
    tags: libri
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    Friedrich Dürrenmatt
    “I destini, considerati a posteriori, sono logici”
    ― Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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    Jack London
    “Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. ”
    ― Jack London, The Star Rover
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    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: life, planets, space-travel
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  • #11
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    ― Seneca
    tags: latin, philosophy, stars
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  • #12
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    ― Henry James
    tags: kindness
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    Rupi Kaur
    “you might not have been my first love
    but you were the love that made
    all other loves seem
    irrelevant”
    ― Rupi Kaur
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    Rupi Kaur
    “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
    ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
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    Pier Paolo Pasolini
    “Siamo stanchi di diventare giovani seri,
    o contenti per forza, o criminali, o nevrotici:
    vogliamo ridere, essere innocenti, aspettare
    qualcosa dalla vita, chiedere, ignorare.
    Non vogliamo essere subito già così sicuri.
    Non vogliamo essere subito già così senza sogni.”
    ― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lettere luterane. Il progresso come falso progresso
    tags: italia, letteratura, letteratura-italiana, lettere-luterane, novecento, pasolini
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    Roald Dahl
    “E soprattutto, guarda con occhi scintillanti tutto il mondo intorno a te perché i segreti più grandi sono sempre nascosti nei luoghi più improbabili. Chi non crede nella magia non la troverà mai».”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Anna Akhmatova
    “Sentirai il tuono e mi rammenterai,
    penserai: desiderava la bufera...
    Sarà una striscia di cielo accesa di rosso,
    e il cuore come allora in fiamme.
    E ciò accadrà nel giorno moscovita
    in cui abbandonerò per sempre la città,
    muoverò verso il bramato riparo,
    lasciando in mezzo a voi ancora la mia ombra.”
    ― Anna Achmatova
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    Marjane Satrapi
    “Non si ha il diritto di autocompatirsi finché i propri problemi sono ancora accettabili... E quando invece non lo sono più, il solo modo di sopportare l'insopportabile è di riderci sopra.”
    ― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis
    tags: forza, resilienza, vita
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
    ― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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    Harper Lee
    “Volevo che tu vedessi cos'è il vero coraggio, invece di farti l'idea che il coraggio è un uomo con un fucile in mano. E' quando sai che sei battuto prima di cominciare ma cominci lo stesso e vai fino in fondo qualunque cosa succeda. Si vince di rado, ma qualche volta si vince.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: courage
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #27
    Virginia Woolf
    “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: women
    3042 likes



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