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    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: night, youth
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    Mark Twain
    “I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, positive, worries
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights
    tags: dream, dreamer, fyodor-dostoyevsky, memories, white-nights
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    William Faulkner
    “Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
    ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
    tags: memories, nostalgia
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    Milan Kundera
    “and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
    ― Milan Kundera
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: franz-kafka, kafka
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  • #12
    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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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Alexander Pushkin
    “..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.”
    ― Alexander Pushkin , Eugene Onegin
    tags: russian-literature
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  • #21
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: genius, humanity, humour, man, problems
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    Luigi Pirandello
    “THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.”
    ― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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  • #28
    A.A. Milne
    “What day is it?” asked Pooh.
    “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
    “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
    ― A.A. Milne
    tags: live-in-the-moment, optimism
    3104 likes



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