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    L.P. Hartley
    “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
    ― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
    tags: history, memories, past
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: humor, life, regret
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Too much sanity is madness. The greatest madness of all is to see the world as it is, and not as it should be.”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
    tags: madness, miguel-de-cervantes, miguel-de-unamuno, quijote, sanity
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    Joan Didion
    “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be…”
    ― joan didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
    tags: joan-didion, on-keeping-a-notebook, self
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Buscás eso que llamas la armonía, pero la buscás justo ahí donde acabás de decir que no está, entre los amigos, la familia, en la ciudad...”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
    tags: hopscotch, julio-cortazar, rayuela
    72 likes

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    Julio Cortázar
    “Regalos insignificantes como un beso en un momento inesperado o un papel escrito a las apuradas. Pueden ser valorados más que una joya.”
    ― Julio Cortázar.
    tags: julio-cortazar, love
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    Julio Cortázar
    “En suma, desde pequeño, mi relación con las palabras, con la escritura, no se diferencia de mi relación con el mundo en general. Yo parezco haber nacido para no aceptar las cosas tal como me son dadas.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
    tags: argentina, escritura, inspirational, julio-cortazar
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Tan absurdo hablar porque sí, oírse hablar y saber que nunca se tiene demasiada razón. Ésa es otra, quizá la peor de nuestras cobardías. Los que valemos algo aquí no estamos ya seguros de nada. Hay que ser un animal para tener convicciones.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Final Exam
    tags: hablar, julio-cortazar
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Chaque fois je vais sentir moins et souvenant plus, mais quelle est la mémoire, mais le langage des sentiments, un dictionnaire des visages et des jours et des parfums qui reviennent comme des verbes et des adjectifs dans la parole." Marelle”
    ― Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
    tags: julio-cortazar, marelle
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    James Madison
    “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
    ― James Madison, Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51
    tags: checks-and-balances, separation-of-powers
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity
    431 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: heart, love, reason, truth
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    Blaise Pascal
    “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
    tags: attractivenessiveness, beliefs, evidence, persuasion, prejudice, proof, subjectivity
    400 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: curiosity, pride, vanity
    318 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “You always admire what you really don't understand.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: philosophy
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    Blaise Pascal
    “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: falsehood, truth
    291 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: humor, letter
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    Blaise Pascal
    “I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: betrayal, frienship
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    Blaise Pascal
    “When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
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    Blaise Pascal
    “We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensees
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    Blaise Pascal
    “The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: creative-process, despair, life-and-death, on-writing, opening-lines, poetry
    192 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.
    (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees
    tags: paradox, quip, risk, uncertainty
    195 likes



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