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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
    tags: interests, personality, values
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”
    ― José Ortega y Gasset
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.”
    ― Jose Ortega y Gasset
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    José Ortega y Gasset
    “tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.”
    ― Jose Ortega y Gasset
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
    1888 likes

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  • #6
    Mary Stewart
    “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
    ― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: lostcauses
    331 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: 50, canto-xxiv, inferno
    276 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: love, mindfulness
    83 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-70
    41 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,
    Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,
    That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: love, passion
    39 likes

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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
    93522 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Tennessee Williams
    “I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
    ― Tennessee Williams
    tags: desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identification, reaching-out
    426 likes

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    André Gide
    “There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
    ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: adam-gottbetter, attempt, attempts, great-things, impossible, little-things, nothing-is-impossible, small-things
    161 likes

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    André Gide
    “Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
    ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62178 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
    5739 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5653 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: feel, feelings
    2267 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: romantic
    4111 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

    - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love
    1454 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: deceit, honesty, lies, lying
    1138 likes

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  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin
    959 likes



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