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    Henry Rollins
    “Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
    ― Henry Rollins
    tags: heart, life
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
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    James Joyce
    “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
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    Thomas Mann
    “…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.”
    ― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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    John Waters
    “You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.”
    ― John Waters, Role Models
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “A ja myślę, że całe zło tego świata bierze się z myślenia. Zwłaszcza w wykonaniu ludzi całkiem ku temu nie mających predyspozycji. ”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, Narrenturm
    tags: evil, human, thought
    58 likes

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  • #7
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #8
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    “Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
    ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan
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  • #9
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    ― Bill Nye
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    Robert Bloch
    “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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  • #11
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Each day is a little life.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Bolesław Prus
    “„Pluń na wszystko, co minęło: na własną boleść i na cudzą nikczemność... Wybierz sobie jakiś cel, jakikolwiek i zacznij nowe życie.”
    ― Bolesław Prus, The Doll
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    Aristotle
    “A friend to all is a friend to none.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship
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    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: friendship, soul
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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
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
    34796 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity
    1085 likes

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  • #20
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
    10932 likes

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  • #21
    Groucho Marx
    “Time wounds all heels.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: paraphrased
    370 likes

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  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
    17360 likes

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  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15053 likes

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    Harmony Korine
    “After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.”
    ― Harmony Korine
    tags: film
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    Arnold J. Toynbee
    “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
    ― Arnold Toynbee
    tags: cultural-decay
    142 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47067 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
    tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck
    1302 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
    16213 likes



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