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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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
    5693 likes

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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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  • #5
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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  • #6
    Paulo Coelho
    “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: love
    3878 likes

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  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
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  • #8
    Paulo Coelho
    “If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
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  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: inspirational, motivation
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  • #10
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: fear
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  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: freedom
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  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: understanding
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  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Franz Kafka
    “One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks
    tags: belief, cell, crisis, death, prison, revelation, stuck-in-a-rut, suicide
    508 likes

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  • #15
    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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  • #16
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
    tags: genius
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  • #17
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: books, writing
    601 likes

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  • #19
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
    16267 likes

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  • #20
    Aristotle
    “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: truth
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    Aristotle
    “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: art, philosophy
    920 likes

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  • #22
    Aristotle
    “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: synergy
    541 likes

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  • #23
    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: ethics, philosphy, self-discovery
    1001 likes

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  • #24
    Aristotle
    “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dignity
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  • #25
    Aristotle
    “The Law is Reason free from Passion.”
    ― Aristotle
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  • #26
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    ― Euripides, The Bacchae
    tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding
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  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
    15460 likes

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  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19425 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
    20164 likes



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