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“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
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Roald Dahl
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#2
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
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Albert Camus
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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Charles Bukowski
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humor
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#5
“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#6
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
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Oscar Wilde,
De Profundis
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#7
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
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Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
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#8
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
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Charles Bukowski,
Post Office
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#9
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
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Albert Camus,
Notebooks 1935-1942
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carpe-diem
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future
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present
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#10
“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
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Charles Bukowski
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#11
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
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Winston S. Churchill
tags:
change
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#12
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
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Charles Bukowski
tags:
love
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#13
“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
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Albert Camus,
A Happy Death
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humor
451 likes
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#14
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#15
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
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Albert Camus,
The Stranger
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#16
“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#17
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
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Albert Camus
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“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
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Oscar Wilde
tags:
feelings
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#19
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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#20
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
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Winston Churchill
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#21
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
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Oscar Wilde,
Lady Windermere's Fan
tags:
life-surrealistic
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#22
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
―
Voltaire
tags:
doubt
832 likes
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#23
“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
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Oscar Wilde
372 likes
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#24
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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how
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#25
“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
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Oscar Wilde
814 likes
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#26
“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Importance of Being Earnest
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#27
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
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Oscar Wilde
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#28
“Life is too short to learn German”
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Oscar Wilde
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“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
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Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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man
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woman
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#30
“If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.”
―
John Churton Collins
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