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    Orhan Pamuk
    “The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City
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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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: philosophy
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: painting
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: love
    407 likes

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    Orhan Pamuk
    “I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. ”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
    tags: first-sentence
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    Orhan Pamuk
    “As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    Jemal Karchkhadze
    “სიცოცხლე იმად არა ღირს, მისი გულისთვის შიშს მონად გაუხდე.”
    ― ჯემალ ქარჩხაძე/Jemal Qarckhadze
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    Jemal Karchkhadze
    “უცნაურია, რომ კაცს დაბეჯითებით შეუძლია თქვას, რა უყვარს და რა არა.
    მე მაგალითად, სანამ ბოლომდე ვიტყოდე იმას, რაშიც დარწმუნებული ვარ, უკვე
    იმაში ვარ დარწმუნებული, რომ ვცდები.”
    ― ჯემალ ქარჩხაძე/Jemal Qarckhadze
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    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
    tags: friends, humor, people
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    Jane Austen
    “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife
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    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    ― Jane Austen
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    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: prejudice, pride, vanity
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    Jane Austen
    “When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
    ― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
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    Jane Austen
    “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: mr-bennet
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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
    71691 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81812 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
    8463 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
    8925 likes

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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
    6379 likes



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