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    Oscar Wilde
    “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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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “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
    78308 likes

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  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: anna-karenina, beauty, charm, diversity, leo-tolstoy
    347 likes

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  • #11
    Chris Campanioni
    “The mist after rain, uninterrupted rainfall on rooftops, pitter-patter intellect. The thoughts I leave behind like footsteps.”
    ― Chris Campanioni, In Conversation
    tags: footsteps, intellect, rain, rainfall, writers-on-writing
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  • #12
    Munia Khan
    “A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.”
    ― Munia Khan
    tags: back, footstep, footsteps, get, lost, may, might, path, remember, return, road, road-quotes, roads, someday, trace, want, way
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    Dan Wells
    “The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.”
    ― Dan Wells, Partials
    tags: apocalypse, building, gravestone
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  • #14
    Criss Jami
    “Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: artist, building, construction, creativity, development, drawing, feeling, heart, mind, musician, originality, painting, poet, productivity, thinking
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    Rick Yancey
    “Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.”
    ― Rick Yancey, The Last Star
    tags: apocalypse, apocalyptic, building, city, civilization, fallen, human-knowledge, human-nature, humanity, infrastructure, knowledge, science-fiction
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    James Salter
    “ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.”
    ― James Salter, Light Years
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    James Salter
    “The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?”
    ― James Salter, Light Years
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: antipathy, drama, green, literature, nature, poetry, writing
    122 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: flowers, love, roses
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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  • #23
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...

    They don't find it," I answered.

    And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

    Of course," I answered.

    And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational, lovely
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  • #27
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You're not a man, you're a mushroom!”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn't that important? If a person loves a flower that is the only one of its kind on all the millions and millions of stars, then gazing at the night sky is enough to make him happy. He says to himself "My flower is out there somewhere." But if the lamb eats the flower, then suddenly it's as if all the stars had stopped shining. Isn't that important?”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: flower, stars, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: flowers, stars, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    137 likes



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