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    Bob Dylan
    “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: bob-dylan, music, success
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
    2814 likes

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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    82209 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43993 likes

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    George Orwell
    “The only good human being is a dead one.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: misquote, paraphrased
    855 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
    6383 likes

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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    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
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    Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
    “কিন্তু মানুষের জীবনে এমন সব অদ্ভুদ ঘটনা ঘটে তা উপন্যাসে ঘটাতে গেলে পাঠকরা বিশ্বাস করতে চাইবে না, হেসেই উড়িয়ে দেবে।”
    ― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, চাঁদের পাহাড়
    tags: mystery-of-life
    30 likes

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    Jean-Luc Godard
    “To be immortal and then die.”
    ― Jean-Luc Godard
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “the only thing that helped me breathe was opening a book”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
    4260 likes

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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
    2721 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
    2002 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: attributed, intellectualism
    1244 likes

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    Alexandre Dumas fils
    “The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas-fils
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
    37099 likes

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    Shahid Qadri
    “পাথর তোমার ভেতরেও উদ্বৃত্ত
    রয়েছে আর এক নৃত্য”
    ― Shahid Qadri, কোথাও কোনো ক্রন্দন নেই
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    Taradas Bandyopadhyay
    “যে বাড়িতে বই সাজানো থাকে, সে বাড়িতে পাঠক কম।পড়ুয়াদের বই কখনো গোছানো থাকিতে পারে না। যাহারা শখের আসবাবের মতো বই দিয়া ঘর সাজাইয়া সুরুচির পরিচয় দিতে চায় – তাহাদের বই সাজানো থাকিতে পারে।”
    ― Taradas Bandyopadhyay, কাজল
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
    25695 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
    4085 likes

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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    792 likes



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