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#1

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

tags: cry, fools, newborn, stage

#2

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

116 likes

#3

“There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

37 likes

#4

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, inspirational, life

1553 likes

#5

“A dream is not reality but who's to say which is which?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

52 likes

#6

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74328 likes

#7

“Preoccupied with a single leaf... you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree... you'll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in it's entirety... effortlessly. That is what it means to truly "see.”
― Takehiko Inoue

tags: vagabond

136 likes

#8

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo

2880 likes

#9

“I must be loved for myself, just that, or not at all…“ Christian to Cyrano”
― Rostand Edmond 1868-1918, Cyrano de Bergerac; comédie héroïque en cinq actes. Edited with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns

12 likes

#10

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

1338 likes

#11

“Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

286 likes

#12

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: escape, prison, prison-escape

989 likes

#13

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering

1029 likes

#14

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, wisdom

429 likes

#15

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

2983 likes

#16

“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

360 likes

#17

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8699 likes

#18

“A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: edmond-dantes

112 likes

#19

“...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

96 likes

#20

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2510 likes

#21

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: stupidity

1199 likes

#22

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

217 likes

#23

“Haste is a poor counselor”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

97 likes

#24

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6020 likes

#25

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

2229 likes

#26

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cigarette

1093 likes

#27

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: alexandre-dumas, create, destroy, the-count-of-monte-cristo

84 likes

#28

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

5394 likes

#29

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

2026 likes

#30

“Men should be what they seem.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello