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    Haruki Murakami
    “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
    We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: enemies, explanations, friends
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
    4277 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: puns
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    Jeannette Walls
    “You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
    tags: acceptance, people
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe
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  • #10
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    ― Alfred Hitchcock
    tags: funny, humor, literature, puns
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  • #11
    Charlie Chaplin
    “You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
    ― Charlie Chaplin
    tags: inspirational, optimism, pessimism, wonder
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    Jeannette Walls
    “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: appreciation, earth, god, lord, religion, sunrise, world
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is peace even in the storm”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: love, peace, storm, turmoil
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  • #15
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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  • #16
    “No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
    ― Carroll Bryant
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    Criss Jami
    “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: accusations, allies, belief, believing, connection, discernment, doubt, enemies, faithfulness, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, friendships-and-love, guilt, haters, honesty, innocence, judgment, love, love-and-friendship, loyalty, misunderstood, opposition, questions, relationship, sincerity, skepticism, suspicion, trust, trusting, truth, understanding
    303 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: friends, humor, jail
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  • #19
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy
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    W.C. Fields
    “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Jeannette Walls
    “Things usually work out in the end."
    "What if they don't?"
    "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
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    Oscar Levant
    “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
    ― Oscar Levant
    tags: genius, humor, insanity
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  • #24
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    ― Charles Schultz
    tags: humor, life, wisdom
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: adventure, love, romance
    998 likes

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    Mother Teresa
    “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: happiness
    2525 likes



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