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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Eternity bores me,
    I never wanted it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    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
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: better-life-empathy
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: indifference, misanthrope, social-anxiety
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    John Lennon
    “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
    ― John Lennon
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    “Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.”
    ― Sharon Stone
    tags: inspirational
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude
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    Sean Mangan
    “Life is too short when you think of the length of death”
    ― Sean Mangan
    tags: death, life
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    Robert Frost
    “We love the things we love for what they are.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love, poetry
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    Jim Morrison
    “No one here gets out alive.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: death, life, verse
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Henry Miller
    “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
    ― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
    tags: life
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Oliver James
    “why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
    ― Oliver James
    tags: individuality, inspirational, life
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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    Natalie Babbitt
    “dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.”
    ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
    tags: life
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    Danny Kaye
    “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
    ― Danny Kaye
    tags: adventure, art, life
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