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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
    tags: disappointment, humor, moroseness, russia, satire, sorrow, tolstoy
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    Manuel Puig
    “The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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    ― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It
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    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    ― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
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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
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: bad, charming, good, tedious
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Who, being loved, is poor?”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: life-surrealistic
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    “My diagnosis," he said
    "for better or worse,
    is that your son is the result
    of an old pharaoh's curse.”
    ― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
    tags: life
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    E.T.A. Hoffmann
    “Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?”
    ― E.T.A. Hoffmann
    tags: horror, supernatural
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    Bob Marley
    “The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.”
    ― Bob Marley
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Albert Camus
    “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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