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#1

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

#2

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#3

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#4

“I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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#5

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#6

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

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#7

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

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#8

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

tags: read

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#9

“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass

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#10

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: stupidity

1199 likes

#11

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

tags: learning, life-lessons, mistakes

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#12

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
― Mark Twain

tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake

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#13

“I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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#14

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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#15

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: politics

918 likes

#16

“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#17

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

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#18

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: stupidity, willful-ignorance

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#19

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, positive, worries

985 likes

#20

“Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, king, on-writing, stephen-king

662 likes

#21

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

tags: sleep

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#22

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: ennui

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#23

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: excess, over-indulgence, overdoing

512 likes

#24

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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#25

“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

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#26

“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: apotheosis, inspirational

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#27