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#2

“I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.”
― Georg Baselitz

tags: art, wisdom

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#3

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5881 likes

#4

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

85061 likes

#5

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10100 likes

#6

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: poetry

3883 likes

#7

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

tags: life

4054 likes

#8

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19426 likes

#9

“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

tags: decay, grotesque, women

123 likes

#10

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: on-quotes, quote

487 likes

#11

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

tags: connection

1167 likes

#12

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71743 likes

#13

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: poetry

1688 likes

#14

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns

3449 likes

#15

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

16630 likes

#16

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

838 likes

#17

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

10843 likes

#18

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

4318 likes

#19

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

6965 likes

#20

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

2978 likes

#21

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: love

9259 likes

#22

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

16447 likes

#23

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

tags: inspiration, love, romance

2246 likes

#24

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9009 likes

#25

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8636 likes

#26

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7419 likes

#27

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5550 likes

#28

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

11490 likes

#29

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”
― Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem

tags: life, nobility

554 likes

#30

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: regret

648 likes

#31

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

2266 likes

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