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#1

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
― Salvador Dali

tags: drugs

1053 likes

#2

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

4673 likes

#3

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5277 likes

#4

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
― Salvador Dali

tags: age, ambition, dreaming, dreams, youth

655 likes

#5

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

3733 likes

#6

“To be or not to be. That's not really a question.”
― Jean Luc Godard

tags: paraphrased, rebuttal, suicide

161 likes

#7

“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
― Jean Luc Godard

83 likes

#8

“Every edit is a lie.”
― Jean Luc Godard

40 likes

#9

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

5149 likes

#10

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

4177 likes

#11

“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

tags: life, time, wasting-time

572 likes

#12

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

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74371 likes

#13

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion

4158 likes

#14

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion

2954 likes

#15

“My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors

And trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following”
― Rudy Francisco

77 likes

#16

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93572 likes

#17

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: philosophy, truth

1056 likes

#18

“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

999 likes

#19

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19421 likes

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