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“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”
― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

tags: identity, individuality

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“I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”
― David Sedaris

tags: beer, ignorance, naked

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#3

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

tags: adulthood, humor

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#4

“He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.”
― David Sedaris

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#5

“whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.”
― David Sedaris

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#6

“Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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#7

“In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, 'Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl'.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

tags: essay, humor

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#8

“What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.”
― david sedaris, Naked

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#9

“Owl love you forever”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

tags: card, funny, humer

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#10

“Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: i-fucking-love-david-sedaris, i-repeat-this-quote-all-the-time, say-y-all-and-i-ll-actually-puke

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#11

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

tags: memories

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#12

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: nagasawa

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#13

“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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#14

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

tags: inspirational

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#15

“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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#16

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work

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#17

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#18

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: men-women

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#19

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#20

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong

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#21

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy

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#22

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#23

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#24

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: anna-karenina, deeds, good, leo-tolstoy

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#25

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: on-writing, storytelling

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#26

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: goodness, simplicity, truth

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#27

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: compatibility

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#28

“Love those you hate you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: hate, inspirational, love

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#29

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: judge, right, wrong

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#30

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: closeness, love, soul-mate

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