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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
    1822 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: boredom, life, pain
    390 likes

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  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151402 likes

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  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135504 likes

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  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    41001 likes

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  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13880 likes

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  • #8
    Henrik Ibsen
    “You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
    ― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
    370 likes

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  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: centaur, centaurs, innocent, ronan, victims
    245 likes

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  • #10
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
    6425 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: choice, inspirational
    1955 likes

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  • #12
    Martin Esslin
    “The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.” .”
    ― Martin Esslin
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    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
    1601 likes

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    Horace Walpole
    “This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
    ― Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole
    99 likes

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  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    859 likes

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  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    4784 likes

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  • #17
    Martin Heidegger
    “Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.”
    ― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
    57 likes

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  • #18
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: suicide
    2528 likes

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  • #19
    Thomas Hardy
    “It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. My”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
    1671 likes

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  • #21
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    1230 likes

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  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
    6840 likes

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  • #23
    Marcel Proust
    “There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...”
    ― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
    tags: growth, youth
    115 likes

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  • #24
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
    8475 likes

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    Santiago Ramón y Cajal
    “Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”
    ― Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator
    tags: brain, cognitive, desire, neuron, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, science
    116 likes

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  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    705 likes

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  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
    1113 likes

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  • #28
    “War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.”
    ― Niko Bellic
    tags: games-quotes, war
    2 likes

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  • #29
    Samuel Beckett
    “ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
    VLADIMIR: That's what you think.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    256 likes

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  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
    tags: debate, politics, prejudices, propaganda, rhetoric
    281 likes



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