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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    William Shakespeare
    “Et tu, Brute?”
    ― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar
    tags: betrayal, brutus, julius-caesar, shakespeare
    887 likes

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  • #3
    Confucius
    “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: betrayal, friends, trust
    518 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: betrayal, malediction
    98 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
    By each let this be heard,
    Some do it with a bitter look,
    Some with a flattering word,
    The coward does it with a kiss,
    The brave man with a sword!

    Some kill their love when they are young,
    And some when they are old;
    Some strangle with the hands of Gold:
    The kindest use a knife, because
    The dead so soon grow cold.

    Some love too little, some too long,
    Some sell and others buy;
    Some do the deed with many tears,
    And some without a sigh:
    For each man kills the thing he loves,
    Yet each man does not die.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde including the Ballad of Reading Gaol
    tags: 1897, ballad-of-reading-gaol
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: language, new-year, voice, words
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    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “For I have known them all already, known them all—
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others
    tags: life
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Books. Cats. Life is good.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: the-cocktail-party
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: emotion, escape, personality, poetry
    336 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: blood, ink, inspirational, literature
    400 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: reading, winter
    204 likes

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    T.S. Eliot
    “Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
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    T.S. Eliot
    “My mind may be American but my heart is British.”
    ― T. S. Eliot
    tags: american, british
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    Jane Austen
    “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Mark Twain
    “We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alice"--but he was only interesting to look at, for he was the silliest and shyest full-grown man I have ever met except "Uncle Remus.”
    ― Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll, shyness, twain
    18 likes

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    Richard Ayoade
    “Shyness can be interpreted as a kind of aggression.”
    ― Richard Ayoade
    tags: introvert, misunderstood, quiet, shyness, silence
    9 likes

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: coffee, compliments, little-women, louisa-may-alcott
    1601 likes

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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Let us be elegant or die!”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: femininity
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: amy, hurt, mean, meanness
    599 likes

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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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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
    1603 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    969 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: love
    522 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    369 likes

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  • #30
    Sylvia Plath
    “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
    3628 likes



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