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#1

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

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#2

“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word 鈥渏ustice鈥� into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason鈥� and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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#3

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#4

“Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.”
― NICOLAS BERDYAEV

tags: fear

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#5

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness

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#6

“Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.”
― Th茅ophile Gautier, The Works of Th茅ophile Gautier

tags: clarimonde, la-morte-amoureuse, love, romanticismo

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#7

“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”
― Hilaire Belloc

tags: communism

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#8

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

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#9

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: grandness, love, passion, true-love

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#10

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
― Immanuel Kant

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#11

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: discovery, travel

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#12

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

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#13

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: better, die, pain, suffer

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#14

“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: ancient-greek-tragedy, inspirational

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#15

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”
― Edith Wharton

tags: language, music, paradox, understanding

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#16

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
― Quentin Crisp

tags: fashion, lgbt

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#17

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#18

“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#19

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#20

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian

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#21

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations

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#22

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany鈥檚 and Three Stories

tags: normal

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#23

“Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").”
― Horace

tags: ability, completion

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#24

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: love

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#25

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted

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#26

“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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#27

“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
― Slavoj 沤i啪ek

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#28

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj 沤i啪ek

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#29

“Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.”
― Maxim Gorky, My childhood

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#30

“And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons....”
― Maxim Gorky, My Childhood

tags: friendship, misfit

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