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    W.B. Yeats
    “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: futility, pessimism
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    E.M. Forster
    “I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
    ― E.M. Forster
    tags: books, literature, self-discovery
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Light is the left hand of darkness
    and darkness the right hand of light.
    Two are one, life and death, lying
    together like lovers in kemmer,
    like hands joined together,
    like the end and the way.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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    W.H. Auden
    “The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
    Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
    For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
    ― W.H. Auden, Selected Poems
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    W.H. Auden
    “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
    Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may
    Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
    But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
    As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water,
    And the expensive ship that must have seen
    Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
    Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.”
    ― W. H. Auden
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
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    Bob Dylan
    “People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
    ― Bob Dylan
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    Bob Dylan
    “You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
    ― Bob Dylan
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    ― John Lennon
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    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    John Lennon
    “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
    ― John Lennon
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    “(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
    "How do you find America?"
    "Turn left at Greenland.”
    ― Ringo Starr
    tags: america, beatles, geography, greenland, humor, media, wordplay
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham
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    Woody Allen
    “If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”
    ― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters
    tags: christian-behavior, humor, organized-religion, religion, woody-allen
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    Woody Allen
    “I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.”
    ― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
    tags: humour, life
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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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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25186 likes



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