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    Oscar Wilde
    “And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: hypocrisy, moral
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    Emily Brontë
    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: catherine, haunting, heathcliff, love, malediction, restlessness
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  • #3
    Edith Wharton
    “Each time you happen to me all over again.”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
    tags: awe, love
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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
    177064 likes

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    Edith Wharton
    “The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
    ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
    tags: falsehood, family, friends, insincerity, kindness, loneliness, pretense
    662 likes

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  • #6
    Herman Melville
    “Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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  • #7
    Emily Brontë
    “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: heart, heartbroken
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    Emily Brontë
    “It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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  • #10
    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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  • #11
    George Orwell
    “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four
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  • #12
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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  • #13
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    George Orwell
    “But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984
    104 likes

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  • #15
    Chairil Anwar
    “sekali berarti sesudah itu mati”
    ― Chairil Anwar
    tags: poetry, puisi
    60 likes

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  • #16
    Ajahn Brahm
    “When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.”
    ― Ajahn Brahm
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  • #17
    Ajahn Brahm
    “Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like. ”
    ― Ajahn Brahm
    tags: inspirational
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    Ajahn Brahm
    “Berapa banyak waktu dalam hidup yang kita sia-siakan karena mengkhawatirkan sesuatu yang, pada saat itu, tak memiliki solusi, dan karena itu, bukanlah sebuah masalah?”
    ― Ajahn Brahm
    tags: masalah-kritis, solusi
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    Ajahn Brahm
    “We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us”
    ― Ajahn Brahm, Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties
    tags: commitment, inspirational, love, marrige, romance
    27 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
    7535 likes

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  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
    6890 likes

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  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
    6037 likes



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