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#1

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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#4

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#5

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

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#6

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#7

“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
― Emily Dickinson

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#8

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#9

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

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#10

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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#11

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

tags: citizenship, identity, world

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#12

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

tags: humor, reading

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#13

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

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#14

“I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.”
― Herman Melville

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#15

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

tags: dawn, light, silence

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#16

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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#17

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

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#18

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

tags: cats

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#19

“The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat...”
― Edward Lear

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#20

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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#21

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#23

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#24

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#25

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

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#26

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

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#27

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#28

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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#29

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

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#30

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

tags: athe-plague-of-dives

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#31

“We're all in this game together.”
― William Styron

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