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    Frida Kahlo
    “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul
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  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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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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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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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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    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    ― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
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    Tamar Myers
    “I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.”
    ― Tamar Myers, As the World Churns
    tags: optimism, pessimism
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    Young-ha Kim
    “Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”
    ― Young-ha Kim, I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
    tags: fiction, on-fiction, pessimism, reality
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    Gillian Flynn
    “It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
    tags: pessimism, pessimistic, real
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  • #13
    Young-ha Kim
    “There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.”
    ― Young-ha Kim, I Have The Right To Destroy Myself
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    Idries Shah
    “Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
    ― Idries Shah, Reflections
    tags: information-overload, optimism, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “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
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    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth
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  • #19
    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
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