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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: encouragement, leadership
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “You become what you think about all day long.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational, obsession
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
    ― Emerson
    tags: appreciation, wisdom, wonder
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: individuality, self-expression, uniqueness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational, philosophy
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
    tags: morality, philosophy
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
    tags: lust, marquis-de-sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.”
    ― Marquis de Sade
    tags: conscience, nature, passions
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.”
    ― Marquis De Sade
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
    ― The Marquis de Sade
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    Marquis de Sade
    “It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.”
    ― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir
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    Marquis de Sade
    “Those who are unhappy
    clutch at shadows, and to
    give themselves an enjoyment
    that truth refuses them, they
    artfully bring into being all
    sorts of illusions.”
    ― Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love
    tags: illusions, marquis-de-sade
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    “I would rather be the first man in a village, than the second man in Rome.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: character-development
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Every man has within himself the entire human condition”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: j-r-angelella, soho-press, zombie
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: mischief, silly, words
    83 likes



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