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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.
Pasha Makarov
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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.
Ryan H.
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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.
Matthias Müller
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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.
Romain Joly
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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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The most iconic Star Wars quotes
- 1 May the Force be with you.
- 2 Do. Or do not. There is no try.
- 3 No, I am your father.
Shannon Y.
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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.
madamebidouilleur
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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.
Pablo Morales Herrero
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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.
la_maraton
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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.
temporada_lenta
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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.
Elena Barbieri
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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?
Nicolás Pereyra
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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.
Federico Monti
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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.
Clémence Faure
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The best-known French proverbs
- 1 Little by little, the bird builds its nest.
- 2 A scalded cat fears cold water.
- 3 Everything comes to those who wait.
Pierre Fournier
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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.
clara_zocker
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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.
Wojciech Z.
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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.
Alessia Lombardo
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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.
la_eltroll
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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.
Grace Morris
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Stephen Hawking's best quotes (with sources)
- 1 People who boast about their IQ are losers.
- 2 We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
- 3 Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Chinedu
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The most famous quotes from The Great Gatsby
- 1 Her voice is full of money.
- 2 No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
- 3 So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Thabo Nkosi
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