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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

1844–1900

"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."

"'Why, you sad son-of-a-bitch, how can you be so cocky and stand there and block cars when you're nothing but a miserable bear and a black bear at that - not even a polar or a grizzly or anything worth while.'"

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

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🇦🇺William Shakespeare

Literature

English Renaissance

1948–2010

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

121 quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."

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🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

"The relation of word to thought, and the creation of new concepts is a complex, delicate and enigmatic process unfolding in our soul."

"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"...in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it."

"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause."

"Je n'entre qu'à moitié dans la guerre civile. Je veux bien y mourir, je ne veux pas y tuer."

"...debbe un uomo prudente entrare sempre per vie battute da uomini grandi, e quelli che sono stati eccellentissimi, imitare..."

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

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🇮🇪George Bernard Shaw

Literature

1856–1950

"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."

"The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!"

"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were."

157 quotes

🇺🇸F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature

modernism

1896–1940

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it."

"The reason why Proshka wore such large boots can be explained at once: Plyushkin kept only one pair of boots for all of his servants, however numerous they were, and they always stood in the hall."

"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."

"We find ourselves on the brink of a decision, a decision to break with the arcana of the one and the multiple in which philosophy is born and buried, phoenix of its own sophistic consumption."

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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

59 quotes

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified — which is sometimes useful."

"The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in."

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"Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid."

"I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite."

"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"WOKING To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it."

"Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop, does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!"

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🇬🇧W. Somerset Maugham

Literature

1874–1965

"If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers."

"She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world..."

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