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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Importance of Being Earnest
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“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
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Khalil Gibran,
Sand and Foam
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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
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Margaret Atwood
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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#5
“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
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Thor Heyerdahl
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#6
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
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Winston S. Churchill
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#7
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#8
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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Groucho Marx
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#9
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
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#10
“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
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#11
“Y recuerda, hay tres cosas que todo hombre sabio debe temer: la tormenta en el mar, las noches sin luna y la ira de un hombre amable.”
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Patrick Rothfuss,
The Wise Man's Fear
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#12
“Formar parte de la minoría, aunque fuese una minoría de uno solo, no te convertía en loco. Había la verdad y la mentira, y aferrarse a la verdad, aunque fuese en contra del mundo entero, no era sinónimo de estar loco.”
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George Orwell,
1984
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#13
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
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David Foster Wallace,
Infinite Jest
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#14
“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
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Stephen King,
It
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#15
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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George Orwell
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#16
“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
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Hermann Hesse,
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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#17
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
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