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#1

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#2

“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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#3

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#4

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#5

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#6

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#7

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

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#8

“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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#9

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love

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#10

“If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source

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#11

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

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#12

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

tags: women

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#13

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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#14

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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#15

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#16

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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#17

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

tags: love, ordinary, people

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#18

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: emotions, mercy

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#19

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: epigram

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#20

“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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#21

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cigarette

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#22

“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#23

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#24

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#25

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: wit

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#26

“She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#27

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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#28

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#29

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#30

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity

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