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#1

“God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
― Otto von Bismarck

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#2

“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

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#3

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

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#4

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#5

“Asialliset hommat suoritetaan,muuten ollaan kuin Ellun kanat.”
― Väinö Linna

tags: koskela, tuntematon-sotilas

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#6

“Kuule, vänskä. Mis sie tarviit oikein hyvää miest? Täs siul on sellanen.”
― Väinö Linna, Sotaromaani: Tuntemattoman sotilaan käsikirjoitusversio

tags: rokka, sotaromaani, tuntematon-sotilas

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#7

“Hietanen ärtyi myöskin:
– Ei jumalaut! Mää en millään lakkaa ihmettelemäst millai mies pitä kaiken romun takanans. Kuin helvetin taval sitä voi oikein rakasta rätejä ja lumpui. Jokku rakastava nätei flikoi, ja sen mää kyl ymmärrän, mut kuin helvetin taval? Ei, mää olen mahdottoman hämmästynyt. Mää ihmettelen oikein kauhiast tämmöst ja olen niinkun klavul päähä lyöty.”
― Väinö Linna, Sotaromaani: Tuntemattoman sotilaan käsikirjoitusversio

tags: hietanen, mäkilä, sotaromaani, tuntematon-sotilas

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#8

“Vanhala epäröi hetkisen. Sitten hän sanoi:
– Mutta Suomen sotilas vastaa kymmentä ryssää. Khihi.
– Mhiin… Kyllä kai. Mutta mites sitten tehdään, kun tulee se yhdestoista?”
― Väinö Linna, Sotaromaani: Tuntemattoman sotilaan käsikirjoitusversio

tags: lahtinen, sotaromaani, tuntematon-sotilas, vanhala

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#9

“Sitten hän kysyi Vanhalalta virallisen tärkeällä äänellä:
– Korpraali Vanhala. Oletteko te lammas vai suomalainen sotamies?
– Minä olen mailman paras metsätaistelija, hihi…
– Niinpä niin. Honkajoki huokasi muka surkean alistuvasti. – Yksi toivo minulla vielä on. Kunpa sota loppuisi ja pääsisi isoon taloon sonniksi.”
― Väinö Linna, Sotaromaani: Tuntemattoman sotilaan käsikirjoitusversio

tags: honkajoki, sotaromaani, tuntematon-sotilas, vanhala

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#10

“»Suomen pojat! Tulkaa hakemaan leipää!»
– Tu sinä hakeen leipäs päälle voita! khihihi.”
― Väinö Linna, Sotaromaani: Tuntemattoman sotilaan käsikirjoitusversio

tags: sotaromaani, tuntematon-sotilas, vanhala

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#11

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#12

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#13

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#14

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#15

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: lotr, war

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#16

“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

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#17

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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#18

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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#19

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#20

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#21

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

tags: love, soul, stars

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#22

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#23

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

-Claude Frollo ”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

tags: claude, frollo, obsession

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#24

“Do you know what friendship is?' he asked.
'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.'
'And love?' pursued Gringoire.
'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#25

“The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

tags: friendship-and-love, loneliness

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#26

“But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#27

“He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#28

“I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

tags: damned-soul, frollo, hunchback-of-notre-dame

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#29

“This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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#30

“Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on my breviary, felt even at night, in my dreams, your form in contact wih my own, I desired to see you again, to touch you, to know who you were, to see whether I should really find you like the ideal image which I had retained of you, to shatter my dream, perchance with reality. At all events, I hoped that a new impression would efface the first, and the first had become insupportable. I sought you. I saw you once more. Calamity! When I had seen you twice, I wanted to see you a thousand times, I wanted to see you always. Then - how stop myself on that slope of hell? - then I no longer belonged to myself.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

tags: love, perdition

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