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#1

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#4

“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

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#6

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#7

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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#8

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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#9

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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#10

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#11

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#12

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#13

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#14

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#15

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: imagination, reality

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#16

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#17

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love

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#18

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: love

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#19

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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#20

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa

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#21

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

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#22

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#23

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

tags: false, falsehood, memory, recollection, truth

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#24

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life, memory

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#25

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection

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#26

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

tags: memory, reading, trivia

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#27

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: life, memory

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#28

“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: love, memory, senses

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#29

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: music, philosophy, progress

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#30

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry

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