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#1

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind

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#2

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: kundera, poetic, profound, sabina, tereza, tomas

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#3

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: history, history-of-power, politics

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#4

“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep

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#5

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

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#6

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

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#7

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity

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#8

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity

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#9

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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#10

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success

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