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  • #1
    Charles M. Schulz
    “What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #2
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #3
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
    George Patton
    tags: glory

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    Jonathan Swift

  • #9
    Edith Wharton
    “Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows.”
    Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

  • #10
    Edith Wharton
    “Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.”
    Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

  • #11
    Edith Wharton
    “My idea of success,” he said, “is personal freedom.” “Freedom? Freedom from worries?” “From everything—from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that’s what I call success.”
    Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

  • #12
    Bram Stoker
    “Despair has its own calms.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #13
    Leo Tolstoy
    “A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain.”
    Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #15
    Thomas Hardy
    “there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of the cruelty of lust and the fragility of love”
    Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

  • #16
    Alexandre Dumas
    “In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. ”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #17
    Voltaire
    “I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
    Voltaire

  • #18
    Charles Dickens
    “Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #19
    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #20
    Herman Melville
    “Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #21
    Herman Melville
    “Oh, my Captain! my Captain! noble soul! grand old heart, after all! why should any one give chase to that hated fish! Away with me! let us fly these deadly waters! let us home!”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #22
    Victor Hugo
    “To dare; that is the price of progress.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #23
    Victor Hugo
    “Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “Peace is happiness digesting”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #25
    Victor Hugo
    “A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #26
    Victor Hugo
    “A breath of Paris preserves the soul.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #27
    Victor Hugo
    “Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne; to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram! To cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, to sound athwart the centuries a trumpet-blast of Titans, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?"

    "To be free," said Combeferre.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #28
    Victor Hugo
    “I understand only love and liberty.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
    That makes calamity of so long life;”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



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