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#1

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#2

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, humour

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#3

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24158 likes

#5

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#6

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, love

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#6

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
― Christoper Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

tags: latin

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#7

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: inspirational

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#8

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

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#9

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor

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#10

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide

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#11

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, constellations, daedalus, greek-mythology, love, stars

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#12

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#13

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23456 likes

#14

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

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#15

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18231 likes

#16

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino

tags: darkness, light, perspective

899 likes

#17

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: art, comfort, life

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#18

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#19

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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#20

“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: books-art-beauty

671 likes

#21

“He smiled, and his face was like the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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#22

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-suspense

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#23

“...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”
― Homer, The Iliad

tags: ancient-greece, poem

202 likes

#24

“Someday death will take us to another star.”
― Vincent van Gogh

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#25

“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: calling, paycheck, profession

333 likes

#26

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity

9118 likes

#27

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16157 likes

#28

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

4928 likes

#29

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

39862 likes

#30

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

tags: love

7164 likes

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