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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    ― Leo Tolstory
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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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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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
    tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    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
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: sleep
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never confuse movement with action.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: action, progress
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas
    tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: writing
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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    Truman Capote
    “He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....”
    ― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing
    tags: love
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    واسيني الأعرج
    “الكلمات فيكِ .. ومنكِ .. واليكِ..”
    ― واسيني الأعرج, سيدة المقام: مراثي الجمعة الحزينة
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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  • #31
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
    ― Flaubert
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