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The best Albert Einstein quotes (that he actually said)

1 Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving
2 Imagination is more important than knowledge
3 The important thing is not to stop questioning

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Simone Weil's most powerful quotes

1 Time is an image of eternity, but it is also a substitute for eternity.
2 To love a stranger as oneself implies the reverse: to love oneself as a stranger.
3 Among human beings, we only fully recognize the existence of those we love.

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The most famous quotes from The Betrothed

1 This marriage shall not take place, not tomorrow, not ever.
2 The wretched girl answered.
3 Carneades! Who was he?

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Jardiel Poncela's wittiest quotes

1 History is a lie in hardback.
2 Dictatorship: a system of government in which whatever is not forbidden is compulsory.
3 There are two ways to be happy: one is to play the fool, the other is to be one.

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Famous sayings from Krylov's fables

1 The weak are always to blame in the eyes of the strong.
2 An obliging fool is more dangerous than an enemy.
3 And the casket simply opened.

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Pío Baroja's sharpest quotes

1 Man: a being a millimetre above the monkey, when not a centimetre below the pig.
2 History is a branch of literature.
3 Literature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses and life does not.

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Virginia Woolf's most famous lines

1 Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
2 Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.
3 No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Michael Ende's most beautiful quotes (from Momo and The Neverending Story)

1 Time saved is time doubled!
2 On a steamer heading the wrong way, you cannot walk very far in the right direction.
3 There is a great and yet quite everyday secret. Everyone shares in it, everyone knows it.

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Émile Zola's most famous quotes

1 My ideal would be to work in peace, always have bread to eat and a clean little hole to sleep in.
2 Truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
3 A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

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Ennio Flaiano's most famous aphorisms

1 The political situation in Italy is grave but not serious.
2 A dreamer is a man with his feet firmly planted on the clouds.
3 The worst thing that can happen to a genius is to be understood.

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Françoise Sagan's most beautiful quotes

1 It is always on other people's bodies that we discover our own.
2 Insouciance is the only feeling that can inspire our life without having any arguments to defend itself.
3 Why should I waste my time preparing my future, when only my present interests me. And fulfils me.

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Baltasar Gracián's best quotes

1 Good things, when short, are twice as good.
2 All who seem fools are fools, and so are half of those who don't.
3 Man is born a barbarian, and rises above the beast by cultivating himself.

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Seneca's best quotes

1 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
2 You need a change of soul, not a change of climate.
3 The reward of a good deed is to have done it.

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Miguel de Unamuno's best quotes

1 Spain hurts me in the very core of my heart.
2 Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
3 What you can't express, you don't know.

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Galileo Galilei's finest quotes

1 Philosophy is written in this grand book that stands continually open before our eyes (I mean the universe)…
2 … the intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
3 Anyone can speak obscurely; very few can speak clearly.

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The best quotes from Mafalda and her gang

1 Stop the world, I want to get off
2 As always: the urgent leaves no time for the important
3 Why did I, of all people, have to end up being like me?

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Luigi Pirandello's best quotes

1 I am whoever you believe me to be!
2 There is no greater madman in the world than one who believes he is right!
3 Nothing is more complicated than sincerity.

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Montesquieu's most famous quotes

1 So that power cannot be abused, things must be arranged so that power checks power.
2 Liberty is the right to do whatever the laws permit.
3 Love of the republic, in a democracy, is love of democracy; love of democracy is love of equality.

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Kurt Tucholsky's best-known quotes

1 For that is humour: seeing through things as if they were made of glass.
2 What may satire do? Everything.
3 The satirist is a wounded idealist: he wants the world to be good, it is bad, and so he charges against the bad.

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The most famous lines from Martín Fierro

1 Here I start to sing to the beat of my guitar, for the man kept awake by an extraordinary sorrow, like the lonely bird, finds comfort in singing.
2 Let brothers be united, for that is the first law… for if they fight among themselves, outsiders will devour them.
3 My glory is to live as free as the bird in the sky; I build no nest on this ground where there is so much to suffer.

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Ryszard Kapuściński's most famous quotes (with the book they come from)

1 Only children ask important questions and truly want to learn something.
2 There is such a thing as being infected by travel, and it is essentially an incurable disease.
3 Morning and dusk are the most pleasant hours in Africa. The sun is not yet burning, or no longer scorching: it lets you exist, it lets you live.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's most famous quotes

1 To be a poet, you need a lot of time.
2 Only loving, only knowing matters, not having loved, not having known.
3 Do not fool yourself: passion is never forgiven.

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Gabriel García Márquez's most beautiful quotes

1 The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.
2 Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon…
3 Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

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Andy Warhol's most famous quotes (with sources)

1 In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
2 A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.
3 Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

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