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  • #1
    “I think that when you’re reading about death as entertainment, it should leave you feeling slightly uncomfortable, even slightly sick.”
    ― Alex Pavesi, The Eighth Detective
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  • #2
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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  • #3
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
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  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “You don’t have to die in the next year if you die this year.”
    ― Shakespeare William
    tags: books, books-quotes, death, decision, die, quotes, shakespeare
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  • #6
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
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  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #9
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #11
    Romain Gary
    “حتی در مورد بهترین چیزها باید آدم بتواند و به موقع دست نگه دارد”
    ― Romain Gary, خداحافظ گاری کوپر
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  • #12
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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  • #13
    George Carlin
    “One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.”
    ― George Carlin
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  • #14
    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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  • #15
    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: funny, humanity, humor
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  • #16
    George Carlin
    “Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
    ― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
    tags: crazy, men, stupid, truth, women
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  • #17
    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
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  • #18
    George Carlin
    “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor
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  • #19
    George Carlin
    “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: common-sense, equality, feminism, humanism, humor, inspirational, men-and-women
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  • #20
    George Carlin
    “I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: books, bookstores, self-help
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  • #21
    Svetlana Alexievich
    “Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
    ― Svetlana Aleksievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
    tags: death, fairness, justice
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  • #22
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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  • #23
    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
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  • #24
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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  • #25
    Svetlana Alexievich
    “Is there anything more frightening than people?”
    ― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
    tags: chernobyl, disasters, fear, people
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  • #26
    Svetlana Alexievich
    “No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.”
    ― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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  • #27
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
    ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
    tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth
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  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: drunk-dialing
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  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “- Why me?
    - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
    - Yes.
    - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
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  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    1036 likes



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