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    Edith Wharton
    “Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
    ― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
    tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177043 likes

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  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
    43890 likes

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  • #6
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
    33847 likes

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  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
    24695 likes

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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
    22500 likes

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  • #9
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed, fear, inspiration
    21274 likes

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  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
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  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
    11216 likes

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  • #12
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude
    1756 likes

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  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #14
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13878 likes

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  • #15
    Harold Pinter
    “There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
    ― Harold Pinter, Old Times
    tags: false, falsehood, memory, recollection, truth
    426 likes

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  • #16
    Aristophanes
    “To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”
    ― Aristophanes, The Knights
    tags: elections, falsehood, government, hypocrisy, politics, popularity, promises
    80 likes

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  • #17
    J.M. Barrie
    “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
    9021 likes

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  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: courage, love, trust
    4357 likes

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  • #19
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Any fool can make a rule
    And any fool will mind it.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14
    tags: authority, conformity, fool, foolishness, humor, law, rule, rules
    681 likes

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  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed-no-source, conformity, normal, unsourced
    419 likes

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  • #21
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
    tags: conformity, tradition
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  • #22
    George Orwell
    “The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: classism, conformity, control, profanity, sexuality
    61 likes

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  • #23
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
    "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    tags: car-wreck, gabriel-syme, lamppost, professor-de-worms, scientific-detachment
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  • #25
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: bonds, friendship, solitude
    1001 likes

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  • #26
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
    2216 likes

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  • #27
    Federico García Lorca
    “I know there is no straight road
    No straight road in this world
    Only a giant labyrinth
    Of intersecting crossroads”
    ― Federico García Lorca
    tags: life
    245 likes

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  • #28
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto
    901 likes

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  • #29
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    328 likes

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  • #30
    E.E. Cummings
    “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances
    2983 likes



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