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#1

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: love

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#2

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: cynicism, good-and-evil, idealism, politics, vetinari

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#3

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: inspirational, running

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#4

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

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#5

“New York City vagrant:
"What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?"

Kakuzo Okakura responds:
"We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?”
― Kakuzo Okakura

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#6

“Je li ono samo žensko, to ti se ni boga ne boji.”
― Branko Ćopić, Priče Partizanke

tags: humor, žene

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#7

“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

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#8

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: aging, old-age, solitude

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#9

“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

tags: appreciation, nature, tea

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#10

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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#11

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor

1311 likes

#12

“It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.”
― Okakura Kakuzo 1862-1913, The Book of Tea

tags: observation

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#13

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

tags: identity, life, science

919 likes

#14

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

2158 likes

#15

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#16

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31240 likes

#17

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

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#18

“Poći ću s vama jer volim šalu, hoću da vidim ježa-budalu!”
― Branko Ćopić, Ježeva kućica

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#19

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

6513 likes

#20

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: humor

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#21

“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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#22

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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#23

“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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#24

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

tags: dolphins, humour, ulterior-motive

81 likes

#25

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: life, philosophy, satire, wisdom

192 likes

#26

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

5753 likes

#27

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13962 likes

#28

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

7748 likes

#29

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

3729 likes

#30

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading

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