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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: defend
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    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    ― Michael Crichton
    tags: history
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    “... 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
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: censorship
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Iris Murdoch
    “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
    ― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
    tags: love, realization
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    Vladimir Mayakovsky
    “A line is a fuse
    that's lit.
    The line smolders,
    the rhyme explodes—
    and by a stanza
    a city
    is blown to bits.”
    ― Vladimir Mayakovsky
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
    2757 likes

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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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