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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    ― Robert Fulghum, True Love
    tags: love, weirdness
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    André Gide
    “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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    Walter Scott
    “Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
    ― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian
    tags: revenge
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4083 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
    1834 likes

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    Voltaire
    “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, religion
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy
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    Voltaire
    “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
    tags: mortality
    1611 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
    ― Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire
    tags: faith, reason
    687 likes

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  • #13
    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #14
    Voltaire
    “Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #15
    Voltaire
    “Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
    ― Voltaire
    346 likes

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  • #17
    Voltaire
    “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: appreciation, gratitude
    648 likes

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  • #18
    Voltaire
    “What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on...”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

    (Notebooks)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: agnostic, atheism, idolatry, religion
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    Voltaire
    “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophy-of-life
    651 likes

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  • #22
    Voltaire
    “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #23
    Voltaire
    “Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.”
    ― voltaire
    tags: family, voltaire
    202 likes

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  • #24
    Voltaire
    “In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    142 likes

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  • #25
    Voltaire
    “Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.”
    ― Francois Marie Arouet
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  • #26
    Voltaire
    “History is the study of the world's crime”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #28
    Voltaire
    “Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #29
    Voltaire
    “Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    129 likes

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  • #30
    Voltaire
    “No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
    ― Voltaire
    79 likes



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