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#1

“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#2

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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#3

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: learning

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#4

“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: fish, vegetarianism

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#5

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

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#6

“Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.”
― Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: heaven, humor, sushi

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#7

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

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#8

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

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#9

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#10

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

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#11

“You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Face of Another

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#12

“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I am human, and think nothing human alien to me.”
― Terence

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#13

“We thought we could do better.
Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better?
Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#14

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

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#15

“Groucho Marx once said he found television very educational. “Every time someone turns it on,” he said, “I go in the other room to read a book.”
― Steve Chandler, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever

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#16

“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#17

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#18

“We are our choices.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices

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#19

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

tags: class-struggle, war

1181 likes

#20

“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

tags: time

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#21

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#22

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#23

“Все туй копнение в духът,
все туй скиталчество из път,
на който не съзирам края.

И поглед вечно устремен,
напред, към утрешния ден,
без там пристанище да зная...”
― Пейо Яворов, Стихотворения и проза

tags: life, yearning

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#24

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
― Baba Dioum

tags: insight, inspirational

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#25

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring

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#26

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: life, travel

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#27

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

1751 likes

#28

“If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?”
― Śāntideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life

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#29

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

3985 likes

#30

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
― Hermes Trismegistus

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