December 2011
62 posts
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that...
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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A true friend stabs you in the front
– Oscar Wilde
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The reward of suffering is experience.
– Aeschylus
November 2011
26 posts
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them
– Jane Austen
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In ancient times skilful warriors first made themselves invincible, and then...
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Art is lies that tell the truth.
– Picasso
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
– Francis Bacon
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Writing is a struggle against silence.
– Carlos Fuentes
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Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in...
– Georges Braque
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I’ve lived to long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.
– Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
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Life is a mystery, not a problem to be solved
– Albert Einstein
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Precision is not reality
– Henri Mattisse
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will...
– Charles Bukowski
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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be...
– Chuch Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
– Ellen Parr
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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If one is not half mad how can one give birth to a dancing star?
– Nietzsche
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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and...
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
– J.D. Salinger
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
– C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity
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Beauty’s attractive, and we dont want people to be attracted by old...
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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What is life? We are born, we live a little and we die.
– E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
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I cannot live without books.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
– William Blake, Proverbs of Hell