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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If you know the why, you can live any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, understanding
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Markus Zusak
    “Sometimes people are beautiful.
    Not in looks.
    Not in what they say.
    Just in what they are.”
    ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
    tags: beauty, life
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    Neil Young
    “It's better to burn out than to fade away.”
    ― Neil Young
    tags: death, end, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Joseph Heller
    “He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

    [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom
    tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
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    Mae West
    “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
    ― Mae West
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    Clarence Darrow
    “Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
    ― Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
    tags: classic-insult, death, determinism, free-will, humor, instinct, personality, science, temperament, tendencies, urges
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    Mark Twain
    “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, simile
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    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    ― Moses Hadas
    tags: bad-reviews, books, classic-insult, irony, literary-criticism, time
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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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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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