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    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    ― Bill Watterson
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Tristesse Genevieve
    “When you look at something and think of all the ways you would change it, then you're not accepting it for what it is, nor are you truly appreciating it.”
    ― Tristesse Genevieve
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    A.A. Milne
    “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: animals
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    Junot Díaz
    “She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
    ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    tags: loss, love
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  • #10
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Simone Weil
    “Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.”
    ― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
    tags: christianity, mysticism, time
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
    tags: interpretation, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, subtext
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #19
    Marcus Valerius Martialis
    “Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
    ― Marcus Valerius Martialis
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: absolution, brooding, guilt, morality, remorse, repentance, wallowing, wrongdoing
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    We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip
    “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    ― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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  • #27
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Pablo Neruda
    “While the rain of your fingertips falls,
    while the rain of your bones falls
    and your laughter and marrow falls down,
    you come flying.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    John Gillespie Magee Jr.
    “Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
    ― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.
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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
    177119 likes



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