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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: books
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    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    ― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    tags: nonfiction, pretty
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    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: labels, names
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78309 likes

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  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
    2541 likes

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  • #12
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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  • #13
    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
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  • #14
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: inspirational, patience
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  • #15
    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    ― Anne Brontë
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    ― Jose Marti
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    1777 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    ― Haruki Marukami
    tags: expectation
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting”
    ― Haruki Murakami
    tags: expectation
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    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    ― Alan Paton
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    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
    3596 likes

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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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  • #25
    Confucius
    “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: complexity, philosophy, simplicity
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    Federico Fellini
    “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
    ― Federico Fellini
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  • #27
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: hope
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  • #28
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    ― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
    tags: community
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  • #29
    “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
    ― Teresa TutenAuthor
    tags: alexandra, memories, soldiers
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  • #30
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
    ― Stephen Covey
    tags: history, imagination, stephen-covey, the-past
    109 likes



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