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#1

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: humor, intimacy, sexual

2079 likes

#2

“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational

71 likes

#3

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8699 likes

#4

“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

448 likes

#5

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: belief, truth

92 likes

#6

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

7162 likes

#7

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

2030 likes

#8

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

112 likes

#9

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

tags: sin-stupidity

1382 likes

#10

“why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate

323 likes

#11

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, love

66 likes

#12

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

619 likes

#13

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

tags: youth

501 likes

#14

“If you can spell "Nietzsche" without Google, you deserve a cookie.”
― Lauren Leto

tags: google, grammar, humor, spelling

48 likes

#15

“Only the shallow know themselves”
― oscar wilde

699 likes

#16

“She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

507 likes

#17

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings

105 likes

#18

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

tags: curiosity, epigram, tabloid-journalism, wisdom

1469 likes

#19

“On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all.

-Brian Fitzgerald”
― Jodi Picoult

87 likes

#20

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

1547 likes

#21

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: men, praise

70 likes

#22

“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

517 likes

#23

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto

1751 likes

#24

“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

85 likes

#25

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

tags: temptation

4267 likes

#26

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression

1433 likes

#27

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

1018 likes

#28

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

7822 likes

#29

“Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.”
― Deepak Chopra

tags: contribution, deepak-chopra, humanity, life, people, quote, quotes, strand, unique, uniqueness, web

142 likes

#30

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: life

402 likes

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