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#1

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

#2

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177078 likes

#3

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

4136 likes

#4

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47062 likes

#5

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#6

“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.”
― Brandon Mull

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#7

“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

tags: descriptive, love-quote

1700 likes

#8

“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

850 likes

#9

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

tags: mistakes

1244 likes

#10

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51606 likes

#11

“Writing is successful schizophrenia because I’m paid to hear voices in my head.”
― Jodi Picoult

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#12

“Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!”
― Anais Nin

1179 likes

#13

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
― Woody Allen

2358 likes

#14

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

7168 likes

#15

“Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.”
― Woody Allen

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#16

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

1389 likes

#17

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
― Mae West

1239 likes

#18

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
― Woody Allen

1017 likes

#19

“He f**ks even better than he looks”, I settled on saying. Several heads turned. I didn’t care; I was pissed. “And that beautiful face is going to be clamped between my legs as soon as we get home, don’t you worry.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Destined for an Early Grave

tags: bones, cat, humor, sex

666 likes

#20

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence

4228 likes

#21

“She'd never met an adult who claimed to know so little about so much.”
― Peternelle van Arsdale, The Beast Is an Animal

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#22

“»Si quiere saber qué pienso, se lo resumiré: aborrezco todos los «ismos»: comunismo, socialismo, nacionalismo, fascismo… En definitiva, todo lo que lleva el germen del totalitarismo.”
― Julia Navarro, Dime quién soy

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