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#1

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#2

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

tags: love

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#3

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

tags: change, past, present

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#4

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon

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#5

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

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#6

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

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#7

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

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#8

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: flattery, praise, words

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#9

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

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#10

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

3194 likes

#11

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

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#12

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

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#13

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

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#14

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

6646 likes

#15

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

tags: happiness

1392 likes

#16

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

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#17

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

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#18

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

tags: gender

1490 likes

#19

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

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#20

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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#21

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

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#22

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

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#23

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

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#24

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

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#25

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

2542 likes

#26

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

1223 likes

#27

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

23762 likes

#28

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

tags: edward

3191 likes

#29

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

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#30

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

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