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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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“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

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“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology, relationships, sons, women

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#4

“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: psychology

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#5

“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

tags: introversion, psychology, sociology

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#6

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: psychology

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#7

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

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#8

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

tags: psychology

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#9

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

tags: classics, education

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#10

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#11

“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: authorial-intent, classics, drama, interpretation, shakespeare

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#12

“May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: classics

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#13

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― emily bronte

tags: classics, romance

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#14

“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

tags: classics, daniel-defoe, moll-flanders

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#15

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#16

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#17

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

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#18

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy

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#19

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

tags: classics, love

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#20

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play

tags: books, classics

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#21

“A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
Finding himself no happier abroad.
He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,
You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,
And yawns before he's put his foot inside,
Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,
Or even rushes back to town again.
So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because
It clings to him the more closely against his will)
And hates himself because he is sick in mind
And does not know the cause of his disease.”
― Lucretius

tags: ancient-rome, classics, latin, lucretius, philosophy

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#22

“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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#23

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science

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#24

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

tags: travel

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#25

“I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

tags: books, classics, criticism, elitism, literature, opinions, reading, snobbery

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#26

“Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
― Lydia Davis, Essays One

tags: classics, contemporary-literature, literature, reading

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#27

“The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)”
― Ezra Pound, Selected Poems of Ezra Pound

tags: classics

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#28

“I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: classics, jane-austen, persuasion

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#29

“True friendship is oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are...”
― George Eliot

tags: classics, george-eliot, quote

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#30

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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