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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    1978 likes

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    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: matthias
    2895 likes

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  • #4
    Stephen King
    “Your hair is winter fire
    January embers
    My heart burns there, too.”
    ― Stephen King, It
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    Ruth Hogan
    “Her grandmother had once told her that one could blame ugliness on one's genes and ignorance on one's education, but there was absolutely no excuse whatsoever for being dull.”
    ― Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To oppose something is to maintain it.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    112 likes

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    Jack London
    “limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
    78 likes

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  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    159 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
    6115 likes

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  • #10
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
    5492 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: rainer-maria-rilke
    546 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
    8025 likes

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  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
    1104 likes

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  • #15
    “By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he is wrong.”
    ― Charles Wadsworth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
    ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
    tags: marriage
    70 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74333 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
    42402 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: love, madness
    7270 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
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    Jack London
    “Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.”
    ― Jack London, Martin Eden
    tags: appearance, image, love, superficiality
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    Dan Simmons
    “Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
    tags: language
    176 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: character, misattributed, nobility
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
    ― Goethe
    768 likes

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    Dale Carnegie
    “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin
    1035 likes

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    Dale Carnegie
    “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: logic, people, prejudice, pride, relationships, vanity
    941 likes

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    Dale Carnegie
    “Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: happiness, life-lessons, self-control
    580 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: darkness
    2668 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: inspirational
    2466 likes

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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
    how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    1911 likes



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