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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: amazing-writing

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#2

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#3

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#4

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#5

“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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#6

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
― Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

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#7

“The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#8

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#9

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#10

“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#11

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#12

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: boxing, insult

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#13

“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#14

“It's not bragging if you can back it up.”
― Muhammed Ali

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#15

“I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!”
― Muhammad Ali, Ali! Ali!: The Words of Muhammed Ali.

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#16

“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths”
― Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

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#17

“I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#18

“If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#19

“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#20

“Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: chance, humor, inspiration, odds-and-obstacles

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#21

“It's the new life in her which strikes me," he said. "She's brought wealth with her and wealth is power to do the good or evil that grows in a man's soul, but she has brought something more... She has begun living with them as if her ancestors have done it for six-hundred years. And what I see is that if she had come without a penny in her pocket she would have done the same thing... She's life," he said, "She's life itself. Good God, what a thing is it for a man or a woman to be life instead of a mass of tissue and muscle and nerve dragged about by the mere mechanism of living."

Mount Dunstan about Bettina Vanderpoel”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

tags: life-and-living, life-wealth, money-happiness

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#22

“I think that this is ultimately why we want money: It's to create a world that you prefer.

To create an environment, to create an experience that you enjoy more. It might be shoes - it might be charity. By giving to charity, I'm just buying the world I would prefer. Because that world gives you more joy, more happiness. And it's a more stable world for the future and for my children.”
― Hank Green

tags: charity, charity-quote, earning, earning-a-living, earning-money, lewis-howes-school-of-greatness, money, money-happiness, money-making

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#23

“The world is saltwater. The more you drink, the thirstier you get”
― Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil

tags: materialism, materialism-versus-spiritualism, materialistic, money-happiness, phylosophy, phylosophy-of-life, wisdom-quotes

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#24

“There are some people who collect money for the afterlife.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

tags: afterlife, afterlife-hereafter, afterlife-quotes, afterlife-speculation, money, money-happiness, money-management, money-not-happiness, money-quote, money-quotes

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#25

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#26

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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#27

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: god, humor, money

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#28

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: money

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#29

“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
― Voltaire

tags: money

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#30

“When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

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