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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
    tags: friendship, piglet, pooh, reassurance
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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  • #4
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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  • #10
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
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  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Muhammad Ali
    “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
    ― Muhammad Ali
    tags: friendship
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

    —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery
    6826 likes

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    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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    Sylvia Plath
    “I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    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
    1470 likes

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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
    tags: life-lessons, mistakes
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Tom Robbins
    “Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think! ”
    ― Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
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    William Shakespeare
    “He that commends me to mine own content
    Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
    I to the world am like a drop of water
    That in the ocean seeks another drop,
    Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
    Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
    So I, to find a mother and a brother,
    In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
    tags: character, division, identity, unity
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    Alexandra Christo
    “False confidence is nobody's friend.”
    ― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
    tags: alexandrachristo, tokillakingdom
    59 likes

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    Toba Beta
    “Overconfidence precedes carelessness.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: carelessness, overconfidence
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    Toba Beta
    “Overconfidence is a lowly bitch that easily fucked.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: assumption, bitch
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    John Ruskin
    “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
    ― John Ruskin
    tags: introspection, psychology, self-importance, self-involvement
    188 likes

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    Sam Vaknin
    “Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.”
    ― Sam Vaknin, Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited
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    Criss Jami
    “The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself - the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs his own law of gravity which states that all things and all creatures must adhere to his personal satisfaction, but when they do not, the pain is far more intense than it is for one who is free from the clamors of 'I'.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: burden, ego, fear, intimidation, narcissism, pain, paranoia, psychology, satisfaction, self-centeredness, threat
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  • #29
    “A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.”
    ― Shahida Arabi, Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself
    tags: abuse, emotional-abuse, family-relationships, love, survivors-of-abuse
    71 likes

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  • #30
    Elle Kennedy
    “Seriously, dude, put on a shirt.”

    “Hey, you know what they say,” Dean drawls. “If you’ve got it, flaunt it.”

    “No, I’m pretty sure they say put on a shirt when you go for a run, you cocky narcissist.”

    His jaw drops. “Narcissist? More like realist. Look at these abs, Wellsy. Actually, touch them. Seriously. It will change your life.”
    ― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake
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