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    Albert Einstein
    “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: growing-older, solitude
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
    tags: fair, life
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
    7580 likes

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    Omar Khayyám
    “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
    ― Omar Khayyám
    tags: indelibility, poetry, regret, time
    745 likes

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    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    ― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
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    William Blake
    “Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    “The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”
    ― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
    tags: distortion, falsehood, lies, truth
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    Thornton Wilder
    “[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.”
    ― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    tags: ego, selfishness
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Anaïs Nin
    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: death, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?

    There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: truth
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    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    ― Edward Albee
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    Cyril Connolly
    “...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay.”
    ― Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
    41962 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
    9935 likes

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    Guy de Maupassant
    “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: memory
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    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: atheism, religion
    2355 likes

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    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    ― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
    tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion
    1984 likes

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    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
    3506 likes

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    Djuna Barnes
    “A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
    ― Djuna Barnes
    tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self
    1287 likes

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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    463 likes

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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
    tags: love
    7152 likes

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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
    4190 likes

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    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    ― Tom Perrotta, Election
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    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: aging, old-age, solitude
    255 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
    16631 likes



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