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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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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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    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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    Jane Jacobs
    “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
    ― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    tags: 238, cities
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  • #11
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism, philosophy
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  • #13
    James Baldwin
    “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
    ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
    tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind
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    Elif Shafak
    “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
    tags: love
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    Elif Shafak
    “Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
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    Elif Shafak
    “You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
    tags: books, reading
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    Elif Shafak
    “Jede wahre Liebe und Freundschaft ist die Geschichte einer unerwarteten Veränderung. Wenn wir, nachdem wir geliebt haben, derselbe sind wie zuvor, dann haben wir nicht genug geliebt.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
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    Joan Didion
    “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
    ― Joan Didion, The White Album
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    Joan Didion
    “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Joan Didion
    “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
    ― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect
    tags: character, life, responsibility, self-respect
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    Joan Didion
    “You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
    ― Joan Didion
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  • #22
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “64oz is 1.89L (64: Kamala 1:won 89: Taylor Swift endorsement)”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: creator, divine, kamala, math, miracles, spiritual, synchronicity, taylor-swift
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    Matthew Edward Hall
    “The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
    ― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
    tags: allah, christmas, divine, earth, god, greatspirit, inspirational, life, love, miracles
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  • #24
    Susan Sontag
    “Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society's double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women and then obscenely into old women, they can become women much earlier -- and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: 1972, aging, old-women, the-double-standard-of-aging, women
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