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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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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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    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor, taste
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: on-writing
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    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    ― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play
    tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
    “To save all we must risk all.”
    ― Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy
    tags: inspirational, risk, save
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, castle, self
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
    tags: happiness, life, sea
    2161 likes



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