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#1

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
― Edgar Degas

#2

“Ω, οι μικροί πετεινοί δεν αγαπούν τον ορνιθώνα, του αρέσει μόνος του, κάνει καντάδες στο φεγγάρι.”
― Ζυράννα Ζατέλη, Το πάθος χιλιάδες φορές

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#3

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

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#4

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

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#5

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: conscience, politics, right

4839 likes

#6

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12721 likes

#7

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

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#8

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes

2200 likes

#9

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#10

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

tags: books

6772 likes

#11

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#12

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#13

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

4413 likes

#14

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

1685 likes

#15

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

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#16

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

tags: books, orhan-pamuk, reading, the-new-life

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#17

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6895 likes

#18

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

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#19

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

2887 likes

#20

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

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#21

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

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#22

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#23

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: regret, regrets, sincerity

2282 likes

#24

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

3265 likes

#25

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

tags: truth

2060 likes

#26

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

1566 likes

#27

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

3946 likes

#28

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town”
― Christina Rossetti

1022 likes

#29

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#30

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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