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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
    6114 likes

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  • #3
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    ― Jean Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom
    1492 likes

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  • #4
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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  • #5
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”
    ― HEGEL
    tags: success
    506 likes

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  • #6
    Max Frisch
    “Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”
    ― Max Frisch
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    Bernhard Schlink
    “There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
    tags: redemption
    486 likes

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    Bernhard Schlink
    “I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
    tags: love, philosophy
    405 likes

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  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Димитър Димов
    “Тези светове я привличаха и омайваха с безуспешните усилия на героите си да се спасят от себе си, с удачната красота на драмите и пороците си.”
    ― Dimitar Dimov, Тютюн
    tags: Димитър-Димов, Ирина, Тютюн
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    Димитър Димов
    “Познатият глас, тъмните очи парализираха мисълта й, подчиняваха волята й, обхващаха цялото й същество с магията на октомврийския следобед преди четири години, когато го видя за първи път. Някаква сила я тласкаше отново към мъчителното и сладостно чувство на миналото.”
    ― Димитър Димов, Тютюн
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    Димитър Талев
    “Човек не бива и не може да живее само за себе си.”
    ― Димитър Талев, Железният светилник
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    Pascal Mercier
    “A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: emotions, feelings, life
    307 likes

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  • #14
    Pascal Mercier
    “Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. ”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
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  • #15
    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, calling, life
    3815 likes

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  • #16
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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  • #17
    Victor Hugo
    “It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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  • #18
    Victor Hugo
    “People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
    ― Victor Hugo
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  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    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
    177044 likes

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  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “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
    46486 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
    9702 likes

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  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: comfort, crying, tears
    4310 likes

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    Lemony Snicket
    “It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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  • #27
    Lemony Snicket
    “I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: misery
    682 likes

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    Zachary Karabashliev/ Захари Карабашлиев
    “Започваш да разбираш, че си истински влюбен, когато искаш да се събуждаш до някого по-силно, отколкото да заспивате заедно.”
    ― Захари Карабашлиев, 18% Сиво
    86 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    9135 likes



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