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#1

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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#2

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

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#3

“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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#4

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#4

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#5

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

tags: dracula

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#6

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

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#7

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

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#8

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie

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#9

“I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#10

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

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#11

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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#12

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#13

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

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#14

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

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#15

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#17

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

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#18

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

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#19

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

4570 likes

#20

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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#21

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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#22

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

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#23

“Soul meets soul on lovers lips.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#24

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

tags: memory, music

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#25

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
― William Blake

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#26

“To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: poetry

186 likes

#27

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

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#28

“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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#29

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#30

“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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