Quotes - Arwa (Sousse, 16, Tunisia) Showing 1-23 of 23

#1

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

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#2

“Certains déserts ne se traversent que dans un sens.”
― Laurence Tardieu, Puisque rien ne dure

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#3

“Voilà peut-être ce qu'il faudrait accepter: on ne fait que passer. Et quand bien même l'amour, le combat, la souffrance à en devenir fou... De tout ça un jour il ne reste rien”
― Laurence Tardieu, Puisque rien ne dure

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#4

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#5

“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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#6

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#7

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

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#8

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

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#9

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

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#10

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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#11

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom

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#12

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: love-remedy

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#13

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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#14

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

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#15

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

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#16

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

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#17

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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#18