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#1

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#2

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#3

“Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No - not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping. ”
― Piet Hein

tags: poet

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#4

“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”
― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

tags: art, einstein, inventor, poet

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#5

“A WORD TO THE WISE

Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.”
― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

tags: wisdom

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#6

“Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.”
― Piet Hein

tags: challenges, patience, time

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#7

“A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that life is two locked boxes
each containing the other’s key.”
― Piet Hein

tags: life

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#8

“It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be late for the previous train,
and always on time for the next.”
― Piet Hein

tags: late, on-time, tardiness, trains

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#9

“Losing one glove is certainly painful,
but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other,
and finding the first one again.”
― Piet Hein

tags: losing, loss, lost

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#10

“I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out.”
― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

tags: life

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#11

“MAKING AN EFFORT
Our so-called limitations, I believe,
apply to faculties we don't apply.
We don't discover what we can't achieve
until we make an effort not to try.”
― Piet Hein

tags: inspirational, piet-hein

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#12

“We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas, I know
it would have killed me long ago.”
― Piet Hein

tags: foresight

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#13

“MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are.”
― Piet Hein

tags: piet-hein

15 likes

#14

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
― Piet Hein

tags: art, design

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#15

“TIMING TOAST
Grook on how to char for yourself

There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.”
― Piet Hein

tags: humor, piet-hein

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#16

“THE FINAL TOUCH
Portrait of nobody in particular

Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.”
― Piet Hein

tags: humor, piet-hein

5 likes

#17

“Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.”
― Piet Hein

tags: existence, infinite, philosophy, poetry

16 likes

#18

“Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.”
― Piet Hein

tags: omniscience

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#19

“Nobody can be lucky all the time,
so when your luck deserts you in some fashion
don't think you've been abandoned in your prime,
but rather that you're saving up your ration.”
― Piet Hein

tags: luck

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#20

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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