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#1

“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

71710 likes

#2

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81840 likes

#3

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46505 likes

#4

“Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.”
― Rene Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking

45 likes

#5

“It's not the end of it when you've drowned your black thoughts, because afterwards there are blue thoughts and red thoughts and yellow thoughts...”
― René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking

6 likes

#6

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93564 likes

#7

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

3517 likes

#8

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

2859 likes

#9

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears

928 likes

#10

“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

tags: life

263 likes

#11

“Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

174 likes

#12

“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: emotion

713 likes

#13

“You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: ask, power

735 likes

#14

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6042 likes

#15

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

4268 likes

#16

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17491 likes

#17

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

276 likes

#18

“when there's a smile in your heart, there's no better time to start”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

28 likes

#19

“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

122 likes

#20

“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

tags: life-and-death

1258 likes

#21

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: freedom, truth

3019 likes

#22

“Mediocrity is contextual.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

168 likes

#23

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

106 likes

#24

“Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

111 likes

#25

“The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

63 likes

#26

“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: connection, death, fear

44 likes

#27

“Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

tags: falsehood, honesty, truth

157 likes

#28

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”
― Italo Calvino , Invisible Cities

tags: philosophical

73 likes

#29

“In the morning you wake from one bad dream and another begins.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

tags: life

22 likes

#30

“It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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