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#1

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art

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#2

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

17413 likes

#3

“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

553 likes

#4

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

tags: passion

1270 likes

#5

“There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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#6

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

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#7

“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

20252 likes

#8

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

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6082 likes

#9

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

8286 likes

#10

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: funny

5176 likes

#11

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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#12

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: freedom, stories

1795 likes

#13

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

3913 likes

#14

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

3610 likes

#15

“You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

114 likes

#16

“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

130 likes

#17

“Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: animals, listen, talk

305 likes

#18

“I think, therefore I am... confused.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

tags: am, being, clarity, confused, descartes, i, think

52 likes

#19

“We're all travelling heavy with illusions.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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#20

“But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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#21

“The ordinary can be like medicine.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

tags: truth

22 likes

#22

“And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

10 likes

#23

“I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

4 likes

#24

“cry huge, gasping tears.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

2 likes

#25

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8752 likes

#26

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

3875 likes

#27

“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art

790 likes

#28

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76800 likes

#29

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

17570 likes

#30

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

4515 likes

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