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#1

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

tags: dh-lawrence, self-pity

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#2

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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#3

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

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#4

“If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, humor

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#5

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ

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#6

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: words

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#7

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#8

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#9

“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.”
― Mark Lawrence

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#10

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: fiction, humor, love

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#11

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
― Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions

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#12

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

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#13

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
― Bill Watterson

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#14

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#15

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women

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#16

“Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.”
― Mother Teresa

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#17

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton

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#18

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

tags: books, censorship

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#19

“All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it. ”
― Heinrich Heine

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#20

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#21

“Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill,
every bee knows the formula of its beehive.
They know it in their own way, not in our way.
Only humankind does not know its own formula.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#22

“Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#23

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche

3785 likes

#24

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

tags: truth

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#25

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

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#26

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

tags: bitch

2065 likes

#27

“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

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#28

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

tags: humor

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#29

“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
― Anais Nin

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#30

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: comedy, elizabethan, robin-goodfellow

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