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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    John Fowles
    “The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

    "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

    "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
    tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war
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    Jake Adelstein
    “You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering.”
    ― Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
    tags: criminal
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope
    tags: silence, voice
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    Umberto Eco
    “The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
    tags: cowardice, heroism
    375 likes

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    Umberto Eco
    “All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
    ― Umberto Eco
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    John Irving
    “You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
    ― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
    tags: humor, life-lessons, wrestling
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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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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: painting, self-doubt
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: night-day
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    Daniel Keyes
    “Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: book, books, music
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
    2699 likes

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    Daniel Keyes
    “Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    725 likes

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    Daniel Keyes
    “A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: inspirational
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: death, fear, life
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    Daniel Keyes
    “Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love... Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.”
    ― Daniel Keyes
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  • #19
    “«И из нее сделали пример, на который мужчины будут ссылаться очередные три тысячи лет.»”
    ― James A. Michener
    tags: feminism, golda, women
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    “«Он самостоятельно дошел до понимания, что инстинктивная ненависть к евреям совершенно бессмысленна, а в поддержку рациональной неприязни нельзя привести никаких доказательств.»”
    ― James A. Michener, The Source
    tags: antisemitism
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed. ”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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  • #22
    “Ибо, когда у людей горит в сердцах религиозная ярость, на глаза их в то же время спускается завеса слепоты.”
    ― James A. Michener, The Source
    tags: religion
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
    1439 likes

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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Jerome K. Jerome
    “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
    ― Jerome K. Jerome
    tags: humor, work
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    Albert Cohen
    “Хорошо презирать могут только имущие и правящие. Гёте презирал лучше, чем Руссо…”
    ― Albert Cohen, Любовь властелина
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    Douglas Adams
    “This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: happiness, money
    1488 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32148 likes

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    Émile Zola
    “Как он был прав, не желая сюда возвращаться, потому что прошлое — это кладбище наших иллюзий, где на каждом шагу спотыкаешься о надгробия!”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: past
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    David Mitchell
    “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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