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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Horatius
    “Et si male nunc, non olim sic erit"

    "Though things are bad now, they will not always be so”
    ― Horace, Odes and Epodes
    tags: inspirational, uplifting
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
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    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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    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
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “Meanwhile the thinking person, by intellect usually left-wing but by
    temperament often right-wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold.”
    ― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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    W.B. Yeats
    “What they undertook to do
    They brought to pass;
    All things hang like a drop of dew
    Upon a blade of grass.”
    ― W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats: Poetry
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    Denis Diderot
    “We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.”
    ― Denis Diderot
    tags: d-alembert-s-dream
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
    tags: art
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    Francis Bacon
    “Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: friendship, wine
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    Francis Bacon
    “Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
    ― Montaigne, Les Essais
    tags: books
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, philosophy, wisdom
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: friendship, love, marriage
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: cages, captivity, freedom, marriage, married-life, matrimony, relationships, single
    98 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”
    ― MONTAIGNE
    tags: living-well, the-good-life
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)”
    ― Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection
    tags: life-and-death
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: anxiety, doubt, life, misfortunes, sorrow, worry
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: books
    52 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “a good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
    ― michel de montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.”
    ― Montaigne
    tags: misery, montaigne, stephen-king, writing
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: self-awareness
    22 likes



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