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    Charles Baudelaire
    “One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
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    Aristotle
    “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: choice, inspirational
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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  • #5
    Virgil
    “forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
    and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
    ― Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
    tags: 4-203, forsan, meminisse, optimism, perhaps, poetry
    167 likes

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    Fernando Pessoa
    “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: life, pain, ships
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  • #7
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #8
    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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  • #9
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Seneca
    “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
    tags: employment, life, purpose-of-life, time, usefulness, waste
    639 likes

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    Thomas Merton
    “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
    ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
    tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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  • #13
    André Gide
    “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational
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  • #14
    André Gide
    “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: truth
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  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: learning
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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
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  • #17
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1756 likes

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays
    tags: love
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  • #20
    Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
    “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
    ― Alexis Carrel
    tags: betterment, change, human, self-formation, self-improvement
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  • #21
    Michel de Montaigne
    “Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, philosophy, wisdom
    380 likes

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  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
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  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
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  • #24
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
    which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
    because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
    Every angel is terrible.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
    tags: beauty, inspirational
    1064 likes

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  • #25
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: morality, usefulness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
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    Thomas Pynchon
    “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
    ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
    tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit
    1753 likes

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  • #29
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: two-english-poems
    670 likes



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