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#1

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

tags: contradiction, truth

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#2

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

8667 likes

#3

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

tags: crazy, funny, words

1963 likes

#4

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

tags: impossible

2666 likes

#5

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

6084 likes

#6

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

tags: challenge, trap

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#7

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

tags: death, healing, loss

732 likes

#8

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

tags: enlightenment, existence

1518 likes

#9

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

2730 likes

#10

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

3274 likes

#11

“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
― Francois De La Rochefoucauld

tags: wisdom

407 likes

#12

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

2629 likes

#13

“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

tags: content, materialism

1394 likes

#14

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: evil, judgement, right

1208 likes

#15

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell

tags: faults, self-esteem

329 likes

#16

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: repression, strength

1667 likes

#17

“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspirational, love

849 likes

#18

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

2580 likes

#19

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18377 likes

#20

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

tags: joy, life, nature

1266 likes

#21

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

tags: paradox

2459 likes

#22

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4673 likes

#23

“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

tags: life

504 likes

#24

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

3190 likes

#25

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

tags: secrets

3582 likes

#26

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10857 likes

#27

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

2379 likes

#28

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

tags: brains, marriage

2125 likes

#29

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#30

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

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