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#1

“Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.”
― Michelle Obama

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#2

“I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

tags: letter-writing

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#3

“Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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#4

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#5

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

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#6

“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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#7

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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#8

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#9

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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#10

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: romance

3072 likes

#11

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#12

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion

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#13

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: agree

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#14

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#15

“I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There are no miracle people. It happens they get interested in this thing and they learn all this stuff, but they’re just people.”
― Richard Feynman

tags: education

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#16

“The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

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#17

“Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, phd

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#18

“I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

tags: knowledge, physicscs, science

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#19

“I believe that to solve any problem that has never been solved before, you have to leave the door to the unknown ajar.”
― Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

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#20

“I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard Feynman

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#21

“They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

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#22

“Out of the cradle
onto the dry land
here it is standing:
atoms with consciousness;
matter with curiosity.
Stands at the sea
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Quotable Feynman

tags: life, nature, universe, wonder

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#23

“The lay reader only wanted to have the illusion of understanding and to catch a few buzzwords to throw around at cocktail parties.”
― Richard Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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#24

“you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

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#25

“Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.”
― Steve Maraboli

tags: carpe-diem, happiness, inspirational, life, self-love

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#26

“Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: action, carpe-diem, day, happiness, life, moment, perfection, success

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#27

“I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that matter most to me.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: andre-aciman, armie-hammer, call-me-by-your-name, timothy-chalamet

283 likes

#28

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: hope, love

2387 likes

#29

“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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#30

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

tags: the-past

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