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#1

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#2

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: existentialism, kafka, metamorphosis, trial

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#3

“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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#4

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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#5

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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#6

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: fool, fyodor-dostoevsky, heart

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#7

“The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: advice, bran, bran-stark, darkness, the-greenseer

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#8

“Find a voice in a whisper.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

tags: advice, life

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#9

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

tags: advice, fool

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#10

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: advice, love, romance

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#11

“Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: advice, enemies, enemy

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#12

“Be happy without picking flaws.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: advice, happiness

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#13

“What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."
"What is your advice to older writers?"
"If you're still alive, you don't need any advice."
"What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?"
"What makes you take a shit?”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

tags: advice, writing

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#14

“I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.”
― Jane Austin

tags: advice

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#15

“Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.”
― Joshua Hartzell

tags: advice, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes

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#16

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: 2008, advice

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#17

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

tags: advice, epigram, humor

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#18

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: advice, writing

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#19

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: advice, bruce-lee, inspirational

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#20

“I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.”
― Britney Spears

tags: advice, heartbreak

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#21

“One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...”
― Johnny Depp

tags: advice, bullies, funny, johnny-depp, mom

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#22

“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: advice, poetry

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#23

“Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: advice, children

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#24

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: advice, albert-einstein

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#25

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

tags: belief-folly, morality, religion, religious-extremism

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#26

“Integration is the cure for terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

tags: anti-terrorism, cultural-integration, diversity-and-inclusion, hate-crime, interfaith-dialogue, islamophobia, religious-extremism, religious-intolerance, terrorism, white-supremacy

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