Quotes - Karlina (linaj23) Showing 1-30 of 150

#1

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#2

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

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#3

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#4

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

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#5

“There's no friends like the old friends.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

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#6

“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”
― James Joyce, The Dead

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#7

“I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.”
― James Joyce

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#8

“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#9

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: john-galt

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#10

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

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#11

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness

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#12

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#13

“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

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#14

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
― Ayn Rand

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#15

“If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: excess, over-indulgence, overdoing

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#16

“I am, therefore I'll think.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart

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#17

“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: thought

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#18

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: life

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#19

“I think. I am. I will.”
― ayn rand

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#21

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#22

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#23

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#24

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#25

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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#26

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#27

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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#28

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#29