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#1

“Сміливі завжди мають щастя.”
― Іван Багряний, Тигролови

#2

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#3

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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#4

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

6691 likes

#5

“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

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#6

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#7

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#8

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

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#9

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

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#10

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

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#11

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

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#12

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#13

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

4662 likes

#14

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#15

“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise”
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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#16

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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#17

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6452 likes

#18

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6235 likes

#19

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

4235 likes

#20

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

3105 likes

#21

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

2891 likes

#22

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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#23

“Служить бы рад, прислуживаться тошно.”
― Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов

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#24

“Ей сна нет от французских книг, А мне от русских больно спится.”
― Aleksander Griboyedov, Горе от ума

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#25

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: chicken, vegetarianism

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#26

“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: ethics, vegetarian, vegetarianism

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#27

“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”
― Bolesław Prus

tags: happiness

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#28

“„Pluń na wszystko, co minęło: na własną boleść i na cudzą nikczemność... Wybierz sobie jakiś cel, jakikolwiek i zacznij nowe życie.”
― Bolesław Prus, The Doll

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#29

“Przecież dlatego kobiety wszędzie są niewolnicami, że lgną do tych, którzy je lekceważą.”
― Bolesław Prus, The Doll

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#30

“Kobieta potrafi zabijać sprawnie, jak mężczyzna. Może nawet sprawniej. Jest uważniejsza, bardziej wytrzymała...”
― Remigiusz Mróz, Ekspozycja

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