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    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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    Ivan Goncharov
    “Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”
    ― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved...”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
    tags: butterfly, happiness, leaf, nature, sorrow
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    William Faulkner
    “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    ― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus
    tags: poetry
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    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Aristophanes
    “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
    ― Aristophanes
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
    ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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    Archibald Wavell
    “After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.”
    ― Archibald Percival Wavell
    tags: history, military, military-history, world-war-i, world-war-one
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    ― Jose Saramago
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Plato
    “In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
    ― Plato, Republic
    tags: philosophy
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: bhagavad-gita, death, destruction, nuclear-weapons
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    Ayn Rand
    “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: inspirational, life
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    John Stuart Mill
    “In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
    tags: eccentricity, opinion, philosophy, society
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
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    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
    1767 likes



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