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    Audrey Hepburn
    “Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
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    Plato
    “Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
    We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
    in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
    ― Plato
    tags: writing
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    Plato
    “Man is a being in search of meaning.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
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    Plato
    “All is flux, nothing stays still”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Philosophy is the highest music.”
    ― Plato
    tags: music, philosophy
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    Plato
    “All learning has an emotional base.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”
    ― Plato
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through
    our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what
    Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict
    on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Je crois que je comprends bien comment ca peut te faire. Nous avons essayée de batir notre amour par-delà les instants, mais seuls les instants sont surs. Pour le reste on a besoin de foi; et la foi, est-ce courage ou paresse?”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, She Came to Stay
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Das Glück besteht darin, zu leben wie alle Welt und doch wie kein anderer zu sein.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: glück, leben
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Un enfant, c'est un insurgé.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    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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    J.K. Rowling
    “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: dreams, life
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    Jane Austen
    “Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
    ― Jane Austen
    tags: friendship
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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    Dr. Seuss
    “A person's a person, no matter how small.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
    tags: inspirational
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  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “Being crazy isn't enough.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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