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#1

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

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#2

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

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#3

“I do not think, therefore I am a moustache”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#4

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

10934 likes

#5

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion

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#6

“If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.”
― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings

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#7

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

5971 likes

#8

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

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#9

“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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#10

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

1258 likes

#11

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#12

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#13

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

tags: habits, thought

211 likes

#14

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7182 likes

#15

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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#16

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

947 likes

#17

“Nobody can hate man more than man.”
― Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

tags: cynicism, hate, violence

23 likes

#18

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: reminding

6011 likes

#19

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

12853 likes

#20

“Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.”
― Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1

tags: difficulty, dream, existential, ignore, life

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#21

“Sto roků v šachtě žil, mlčel jsem
sto roků kopal jsem uhlí,
za sto let v rameni bezmasém
svaly mi v železo ztuhly.”
― Petr Bezruč, Slezské písně

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#22

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

tags: animals

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#23

“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
― Plato, Apology

tags: apology, knowledge, plato, socrates, wisdom

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