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#1

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

#2

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore

26213 likes

#3

“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational, life, love, time

107 likes

#4

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36810 likes

#5

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

57877 likes

#6

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― Steven Kloves

tags: movie-quote

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#7

“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

tags: trapdoor

196 likes

#8

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: books

4708 likes

#9

“Coffee goes great with sudden death.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

107 likes

#10

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: philosophy

1871 likes

#11

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#12

“Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

tags: communism, marxism, political-theory

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#13

“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

187 likes

#14

“Why does one have to save people to be considered a hero? Why is saving other species considered insignificant?”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

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#15

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

tags: death

1008 likes

#16

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

2709 likes

#17

“This stutter-step of disaster after natural disaster was just a blip next to LED lights, driverless cars, a possible end to poverty through gene-edited crops.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

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#18

“We have built so many toxic constructs, we cannot see through the latticework. We have built so many mirrors, there are no windows to shatter.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

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#19

“Delusional. Naïve. Unworkable. Dangerous. That is what the enemy called the necessities for survival. For flourishing.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

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#20

“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words

tags: body

318 likes

#21

“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
― Eduardo Galeano

518 likes

#22

“Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.”
― Eduardo Galeano

244 likes

#23

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

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#24

“If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.”
― Eduardo Galeano

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#25

“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”
― Eduardo Galeano

tags: container-culture, content, hypocrisy, superficiality

40 likes

#26

“In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.”
― Eduardo Galeano

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#27

“There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.”
― Eduardo Galeano

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#28

“Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.”
― Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces

tags: bias, eduardo-galeano, media, news, tv

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#29

“Development develops inequality.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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