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“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: stupidity

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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: boo, jem, scout

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#4

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#5

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance

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#6

“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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#7

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: inspirational

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#8

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: devil, hell, world

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#9

“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, blindness, ignorance, life

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#10

“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#11

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
― John Lennon

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#12

“Convictions are prisons.”
― Friedrich Nietzche, The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ

tags: convictions, inspirational

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#13

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
― André Berthiaume

tags: masks, self

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#14

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

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#15

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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#16

“Never despair. Never surrender.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

tags: motovational

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#17

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#18

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: companionship, facade, friendship, genuine, kurt-cobain, shallow, superficial, true-blue

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#19

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#20

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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#21

“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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#22

“Only the shallow know themselves”
― oscar wilde

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#23

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

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#24

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting

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#25

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: books, reading

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#26

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: optimism

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#27

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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#28

“Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
― Charles Manson

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#29

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#30

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: past, rich, wilde

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