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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128888 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127100 likes

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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64644 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92166 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60259 likes

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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: heartache, love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
    life.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
    tags: love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: life
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: humor
    329 likes

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    Tennessee Williams
    “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
    591 likes

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    Tennessee Williams
    “I don't want realism. I want magic!”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
    8699 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: romance
    3071 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
    5394 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: marriage
    745 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: basil-hallward
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: relationships
    720 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: caprice, passion
    731 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: aging-well, disillusionment, growing-older, philosophy
    2358 likes



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