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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
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  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
    THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
    FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
    WAS MUSIC”
    ― kurt vonnegut
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  • #8
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.

    Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.

    The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: gazing, looking, mirrors, reflections, seeing, seeing-oneself
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
    4111 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
    2734 likes

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  • #17
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: spring
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  • #19
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие
    tags: books, conduct-of-life, contentment, country, happiness, life, music, nature, neighborliness, rest, usefulness, work
    1968 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: inspirational, life, work
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  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: honesty, independent-thought
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: bad, liar
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

    - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love
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  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: patience, time
    1441 likes



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