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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
    27258 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The only kind of writing is rewriting.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    70 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
    5643 likes

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  • #4
    C.G. Jung
    “The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: evil, stories
    395 likes

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  • #5
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
    16210 likes

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  • #6
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    1163 likes

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  • #7
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: inspiration, motivation
    3627 likes

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  • #8
    Yasunari Kawabata
    “A secret, if it’s kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.”
    ― Yasunari Kawabata, The Lake
    tags: the-lake
    24 likes

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  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
    tags: silence
    176 likes

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  • #10
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
    tags: books, people, reading
    395 likes

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  • #11
    Pablo Picasso
    “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, lies, truth
    511 likes

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  • #12
    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    tags: art, artists
    973 likes

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  • #13
    Anton Chekhov
    “Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."

    (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: characters, creative-process, state-of-mind, writing
    118 likes

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  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Reason is the slave of passion.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    144 likes

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  • #15
    Horace Mann
    “A house without books is like a room without windows.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: books, house, simile, windows
    3194 likes

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  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93522 likes

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  • #17
    Victor Hugo
    “I see black light (his last words)”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: black, death, last-words, light, macabre
    62 likes

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  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
    3725 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: conscience, pride, psychology, self, superego
    516 likes

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    C.S. Lewis
    “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: pride
    448 likes

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  • #21
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
    ― Soren A. Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity, god, pride
    442 likes

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  • #22
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Imagination means nothing without doing.”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
    391 likes

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  • #23
    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
    2623 likes

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  • #24
    Lao Tzu
    “Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: silence
    1148 likes

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  • #25
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
    Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
    Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
    Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
    ― John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly
    tags: advice, friends, inspirational, judgement, motivational, poetry, praise, safety, silence, true, trust, work
    599 likes

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  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
    9135 likes

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  • #27
    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: desire, gratitude, hope
    2878 likes

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  • #28
    Jess C. Scott
    “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely
    tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom
    952 likes

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  • #29
    Voltaire
    “The best is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability
    193 likes

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  • #30
    Ansel Adams
    “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
    1537 likes



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