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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: romance
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: stupidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Solange nicole
    “The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks.”
    ― Solange nicole
    tags: believe, life, magic, mystery-of-life, solange
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    Sara Shepard
    “The best secrets are the most twisted”
    ― Sara Shepard, Twisted
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Anne Frank
    “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: independent-thought, opinions
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Roberto Bolaño
    “If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
    ― Roberto Bolaño, The Insufferable Gaucho
    tags: expectations, feedback, opinions, outspokenness, responses
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    Stacy Verdick Case
    “Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.”
    ― Stacy Verdick Case
    tags: goals, inspirational, motivational, opinions, self-realization
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions
    tags: difficulty, noble, philosophy, poverty
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “A born king is a very rare being.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
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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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    Amy Plum
    “My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one”
    ― Amy Plum, Die for Me
    tags: truth
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
    tags: attraction, co-dependence, divorce, idealism, idealists, marriage, narcissism, sociopathology, the-rules-of-attraction, victims-of-narcissists
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen
    tags: imagination, internet, writing
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “I admire your capacity for admiring.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
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    Jonathan Franzen
    “Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
    ― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
    tags: inspirational-quotes, writing-inspiration, writing-philosophy
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: time
    132 likes



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