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#1

“The only truth is music.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: music, truth

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#2

“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
― Beethoven Ludwig van

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#4

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“The great events of the world take place in the brain...”
― Oscar Wilde

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#6

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: boyfriend, fame, grammy, humor, lady-gaga, music, relationship

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#7

“The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#8

“Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
[N.B. this is obviously a humorous paraphrase]”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#9

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

tags: belief, truth

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#10

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, creativity

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#11

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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#12

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#13

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: forgetfulness, freedom, memory

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#14

“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: forgiveness, retribution, revenge

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#15

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

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#16

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

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#17

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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#18

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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#19

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication

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#20

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#21

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory

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#22

“World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: peace

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#23

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: love

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#24

“Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: love-religion

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#25

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

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#26

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#27

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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#28

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: humor, seriousness

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#29

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency

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#30

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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