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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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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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    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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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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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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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Stephen W. Hawking
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
    ― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems
    tags: philosophy, religion, science
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: atheism, chess, god, language, life, religion, society
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: appreciation, art, creative-process, creativity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: books
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: afford, let-alone, natural, rich, wealth
    696 likes

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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: conformity, fashion, generation
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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    William F. Buckley Jr.
    “I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
    ― William F. Buckley Jr.
    tags: hypocrisy
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    William F. Buckley Jr.
    “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
    ― William F. Buckley
    tags: liberalism, liberals, politics
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
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    Gore Vidal
    “Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. ”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo
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    Heraclitus
    “How can you hide from what never goes away?”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: poignant
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4220 likes



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