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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#3

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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#4

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: happiness, man, trouble

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#5

“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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#6

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

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#7

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: communication, confusion

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#8

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#9

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking

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#10

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
― Helen Keller

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#11

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
― Helen Keller

tags: educator, inspirational

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#12

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
― Helen Keller

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#13

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#14

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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#15

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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#16

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: funny, humor, optimism, pessimism

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#17

“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: cowardice, hatred

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#18

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: english-playwright

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#19

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#20

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: happiness, pain

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#21

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#22

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: courage

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#23

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: music, poetry

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#24

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

tags: damnation, doom, evil, sin, soul, temptation, unrepentance

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#25

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: integrity

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#26

“Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.”
― George Eliot

tags: joy-failure-victory

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#27

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
― George Eliot

tags: love

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#28

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

tags: future, past

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#29

“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: doing, greatness, needs

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#30

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: genuine-islam

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