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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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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
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “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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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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    Milan Kundera
    “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: love
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    William Shakespeare
    “Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments. Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove.
    O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
    It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within his bending sickle's compass come;
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
    If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: dramatist-quotes
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    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Milan Kundera
    “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    T.E. Lawrence
    “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
    ― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
    tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind
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    Laurie R. King
    “Eccentricty had flowered into madness.”
    ― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    tags: sherlock-holmes, silence
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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: dr-watson, introduction, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
    tags: mental, mind, mystery, rebellion, sherlock-holmes, stagnation
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    tags: doctor-watson, sarcasm, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
    "No, indeed!"
    "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
    "My dear fellow! I congrat-"
    "To Milverton's housemaid."
    "My dear Holmes!"
    "I wanted information, Watson.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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    Helen Fielding
    “It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
    ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
    tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights
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    E.M. Forster
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: living
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    E.M. Forster
    “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
    tags: love, poets, romance
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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