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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    Mark Haddon
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    William Shakespeare
    “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
    It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
    The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,
    Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:
    But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er
    Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!”
    ― William Shakespeare, Othello
    tags: allegory, jealousy, mockery, monsters, vices
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    Sam Levenson
    “Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
    ― Sam Levenson
    tags: inspirational
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    David Bowie
    “I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”
    ― David Bowie
    tags: acting, david-bowie, human, superhuman
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    David Bowie
    “Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
    ― David Bowie
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    David Bowie
    “The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
    ― David Bowie
    tags: david-bowie
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    “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
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    “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
    tags: dead-poets-society, opinions
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    “Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.
    Make your lives extraordinary”
    ― Williams Robin Professor Keating
    tags: boys, day, extra, john, keating, ordinary, poet, poets, seize, society
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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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
    “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
    “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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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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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
    “Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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    Alice Oseman
    “Nick and Charlie! Are the two of you coming, or-Oh. You're being gay. Good job. Carry on.”
    ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper - Volume 3
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    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo
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    Philip K. Dick
    “The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: epistemology, philosophy, post-modernism, reality, truth
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    Heraclitus
    “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
    ― Heraclitus
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
    tags: misattributed-einstein
    8426 likes



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