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#1

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

#2

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

5649 likes

#3

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

9162 likes

#4

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

1726 likes

#5

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

2935 likes

#6

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
― Dostoyevsky Fyodor

687 likes

#7

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

727 likes

#8

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: love

1281 likes

#9

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: love

809 likes

#10

“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

495 likes

#11

“Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom.
–The Grand Inquisitor”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

229 likes

#12

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.”
― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems

tags: heart, heartbreak, poetry, wisdom

699 likes

#13

“I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.”
― Sara Teasdale, Love Songs

tags: love, poetry

145 likes

#14

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74369 likes

#15

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

34467 likes

#16

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16216 likes

#17

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

12743 likes

#18

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18234 likes

#19

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47059 likes

#20

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor

7636 likes

#21

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

3221 likes

#22

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

4804 likes

#23

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

3022 likes

#24

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

4457 likes

#25

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

1680 likes

#26

“Drag your thoughts away
from your troubles...
by the ears, by the heels,
or any other way you can manage it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: worry

146 likes

#27

“She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.”
― Mark Twain

84 likes

#28

“She was not quite what you would call refined.
She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”
― Mark Twain

106 likes

#29

“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”
― Mark Twain

81 likes

#30

“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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