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    Oscar Wilde
    “You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: intelligence, love
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
    tags: curiosity
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
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  • #4
    Charles Baudelaire
    “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: curiosity, knowledge, pleasure
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  • #5
    Victor Hugo
    “Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
    tags: eyes, gluttony, sin
    162 likes

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  • #6
    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
    tags: curiosity, lifelong-learning
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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #10
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: curiosity, philosophy, wonder
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  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
    tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom
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  • #16
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The knowledge of all things is possible”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning
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  • #17
    Blaise Pascal
    “Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: curiosity, pride, vanity
    316 likes

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  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: complexity, curiosity, desire, life, love, passion, psychology
    61 likes

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  • #19
    Mary Norton
    “Misfortunes make us wise”
    ― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield
    tags: adversity, curiosity, intellectual, wisdom
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  • #20
    Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    “Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In reality, the trivialization of women's curiosity so that it seems like nothing more than irksome snooping denies women's insight, hunches, and intuitions. It denies all her senses. It attempts to attack her fundamental power.”
    ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
    tags: curiosity, insight, intuition, power, trivialization-of-women, wild-woman, women-who-run-with-wolves
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  • #21
    “One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.”
    ― Captain Jack Sparrow
    tags: curiosity, freedom, impulse, movie, pirates-of-the-caribbean
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  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #23
    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
    4516 likes

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  • #24
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
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  • #25
    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
    and rightdoing there is a field.
    I'll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass
    the world is too full to talk about.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen
    9446 likes

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  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
    7848 likes

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  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
    6855 likes



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