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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: horror, irony
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Dr. Seuss
    “So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
    tags: humor, inspirational, success
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  • #4
    Nicole Krauss
    “When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: power-of-words
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  • #5
    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    ― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #8
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #10
    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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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #15
    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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  • #16
    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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  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    John Cage
    “The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.”
    ― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
    tags: emotion, music
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  • #20
    John Cage
    “College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”
    ― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72
    tags: college, conformity, education-system
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  • #21
    John Cage
    “The world is teeming; anything can happen.”
    ― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
    tags: music
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  • #22
    John Cage
    “Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck
    passing by a music school?
    Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?
    What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?”
    ― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
    tags: music
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  • #23
    John Cage
    “What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.”
    ― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
    tags: music, zen
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  • #24
    John Cage
    “...for we have found that by excluding we grow thin inside even though we may have an enormous bank account outside.”
    ― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings
    tags: inner-life, materialism, money, nothing, outer-life, something, wholeness
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  • #25
    John Cage
    “I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.”
    ― John Cage
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  • #26
    John Cage
    “Every something is an echo of nothing”
    ― John Cage
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  • #27
    John Cage
    “I have nothing to say
    and I am saying it
    and that is poetry
    as I need it.”
    ― John Cage
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  • #28
    John Cage
    “In our forests
    part divine
    and makes her heart palpitate
    wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!”
    ― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72
    tags: forests, naturalism, nature, pantheism, wilderness
    12 likes

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  • #29
    John Cage
    “Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.”
    ― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72
    tags: comedy, emptiness, freedom
    8 likes



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