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#1

“I would only believe in a god who could dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

#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

71685 likes

#12

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment

4560 likes

#17

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

1446 likes

#18

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34014 likes

#18

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

3545 likes

#18

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

2362 likes

#18

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

3241 likes

#18

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15054 likes

#19

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

499 likes

#20

“I like boring things.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: boring

182 likes

#20

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

tags: stories-writing

2507 likes

#21

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― E. M. Cioran

tags: death, existence, life, reason, thinking

458 likes

#22

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

tags: books, literature, reading

3535 likes

#22

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

6731 likes

#22

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2796 likes

#23

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

1322 likes

#23

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

5879 likes

#24

“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: humor

1341 likes

#24

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1956 likes

#24

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

2025 likes

#25

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: inspirational-quotes

6425 likes

#26

“I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, life, lying

1225 likes

#27

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

1656 likes

#27

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2197 likes

#27

“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
― J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise

tags: ballardian

1121 likes

#28

“People are always ruining things for you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

1669 likes

#29

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

11967 likes

#29

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
― Andy Warhol

350 likes

#30

“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1143 likes

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