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#1

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6235 likes

#2

“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

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#3

“Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

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#4

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace

18865 likes

#5

“You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

tags: dreaming

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#6

“I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: destiny, happiness

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#7

“...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

tags: love

100 likes

#8

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

2337 likes

#9

“Words are loaded pistols.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#10

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

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#11

“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#12

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
"This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: diamonds, life, moments

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#13

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”
― Margaret Mitchell

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#14

“Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: grandma-fontaine, rhett-butler, scarlett

119 likes

#15

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: common-misquote

1269 likes

#16

“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: inspirational, procrastination

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#17

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: procrastination

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#18

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: life

670 likes

#19

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: lie, scarlett, unrequited-love

441 likes

#20

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

4528 likes

#21

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#22

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: attributed-no-source

1712 likes

#23

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#24

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor, writing

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#25

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: humor

922 likes

#26

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: hell, people

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#27

“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#28

“You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#29

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: behavior, life, personal, personality

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