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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Stefan Zweig
    “How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
    tags: beautiful, bewildering, darkness, terrible
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    Mark Twain
    “The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, philosophy, religion
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    Voltaire
    “Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    tags: optimism
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    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    ― Raymond Carver
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Voltaire
    “The best is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
    tags: narcissus-and-goldmund
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
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    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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    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
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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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    “For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
    ― Procopius, The Secret History
    tags: history, history-of-mankind, misery, misery-loves-company, procopius, the-secret-history
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
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    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44321 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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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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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
    tags: knowledge, possibility, science, skepticism, thinking
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley
    tags: belief, faith, religion, science, skepticism
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley
    tags: education, inspirational, intelligence, knowledge, life, science, truth, wisdom
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
    4211 likes



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