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#1

“Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

tags: humour, practice, sex, skills

456 likes

#2

“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: beauty, butterflies, flowers, grace

436 likes

#3

“Music is part of being human.”
― Oliver W. Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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#4

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20219 likes

#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177641 likes

#6

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

14741 likes

#7

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11919 likes

#8

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

7173 likes

#9

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

6753 likes

#10

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

5059 likes

#11

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, creativity, leonardo-da-vinci

1160 likes

#12

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art

814 likes

#13

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

680 likes

#14

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: learning

597 likes

#15

“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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#16

“أسوأ ما تصاب به أمة ان يتحد الدين مع الاستبداد”
― سلامة موسى, هؤلاء علموني

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#18

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

2307 likes

#19

“They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: arthur-schopenhauer, death, right, schopenhauer, suicide, title

917 likes

#20

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: art, art-appreciation

419 likes

#21

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

4689 likes

#22

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: absurd

2052 likes

#23

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

3355 likes

#24

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

197 likes

#25

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

171 likes

#26

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

80 likes

#27

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

3802 likes

#28

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

1393 likes

#29

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

1430 likes

#30

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

1096 likes

#31

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena