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#1

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

#2

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality

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#3

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: dante, italian-medieval-poetry, nostalgia, à-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu

1250 likes

#4

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

1078 likes

#5

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

149250 likes

#6

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119757 likes

#7

“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

806 likes

#8

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: past, rich, wilde

556 likes

#9

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

tags: dark, designer, fashion, karl-lagerfeld, life, live, living, love, romance, tragic, world

310 likes

#10

“Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.”
― Megan Abbott, The Fever

tags: skye-osbourne

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#11

“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”
― Homer, The Iliad

409 likes

#12

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

568 likes

#13

“We men are wretched things.”
― Homer, The Iliad

388 likes

#14

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

478 likes

#15

“Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.”
― Glenn Beck

tags: candy, food, labels

243 likes

#16

“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, dumb, humor, information, school

530 likes

#17

“Won’t we be quite the pair?—you with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

54 likes

#18

“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

71897 likes

#19

“A few nights in the open, my lord, a quiet time and peace. Yes, I admit I am glad. It was good, but it is also good to be alone. We need not hurry. At the end is a tomb. Do we need to rush toward it? It will wait.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

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