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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.

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Picasso's most famous quotes

1 I do not seek, I find.
2 Painting is stronger than me; it makes me do what it wants.
3 At their age I drew like Raphael, but it took me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like them.

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Nâzım Hikmet's best-loved lines (with the poem they come from)

1 To live like a tree, single and free, and like a forest, in brotherhood: this longing is ours.
2 If I don't burn, if you don't burn, if we don't burn, how will darkness come out into the light?
3 Time stands within me like a fragrant red rose.

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The most quoted lines from Orhan Pamuk's novels

1 In truth, no one recognizes the happiest moment of their life while they are living it.
2 In this ugly, repulsive world only fools can be happy.
3 Happiness simply means being close to the one you love. We do not need to possess them right away.

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Gustave Flaubert's most famous quotes

1 One must not touch idols: the gilt comes off on your hands.
2 What an admirable invention of the Devil social relations are!
3 Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when we long to move the stars to pity.

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Miyamoto Musashi's Dokkōdō: the 21 precepts of "The Way of Walking Alone"

1 6. Do not regret what you have done.
2 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.
3 1. Do not go against the ways of the world.

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Napoleon's most famous quotes

1 Soldiers, consider that from the top of these monuments forty centuries look down upon you.
2 The only true conquests, the only ones that leave no regret, are those made over ignorance.
3 Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out to light up their century.

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John Lennon's most famous quotes (and the ones that aren't his)

1 We're more popular than Jesus now.
2 Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
3 If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

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Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous quotes

1 Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
2 God is dead.
3 What does not kill me makes me stronger.

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Ernesto Sabato's most famous quotes

1 It is always slightly sinister to return to places that have witnessed a moment of perfection.
2 Human beings know how to turn obstacles into new paths, because life needs only the space of a crack to be reborn.
3 Apparently, the dignity of human life was not part of the globalization plan.

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José Saramago's most memorable quotes (with the book they come from)

1 If you can look, see. If you can see, notice.
2 Inside us there is something that has no name, and that something is what we are.
3 Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions; decisions make us.

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Marcus Aurelius' best quotes from the Meditations (the real ones)

1 Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
2 Very little is needed to make a happy life.
3 The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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The best Friends quotes of all time

1 They don't know that we know they know we know!
2 We were on a break!
3 Could I BE wearing any more clothes?

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La Rochefoucauld's best maxims

1 We give nothing so freely as advice.
2 Some people would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love.
3 Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

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Stefan Zweig's best-known quotes

1 She was still too young to know that life gives nothing for free and that everything fate grants has a secret price on it.
2 Only distance wins you back to yourself!
3 What is the point of living if the wind behind our shoes already blows away our last trace?

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Fernando Pessoa's most beautiful lines

1 All is worthwhile / If the soul is not small.
2 I am nothing. / I'll never be anything. / I can't want to be anything. / Apart from that, I have in me all the…
3 O salty sea, how much of your salt / Is tears of Portugal!

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María Zambrano's most profound quotes

1 I have never been left without a homeland; my homeland is the language.
2 Power tends to be taciturn.
3 Writing is defending the solitude I live in.

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The best Ursula K. Le Guin quotes, from Earthsea to The Dispossessed

1 It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
2 Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light.
3 We read books to find out who we are.

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Cioran's most famous aphorisms

1 We do not inhabit a country, we inhabit a language. That is our homeland, and nothing else.
2 Man is an overworked animal.
3 We only think because we shy away from acting. To think is to hold back.

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Karl Popper's most famous quotes

1 If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant… the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
2 There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
3 The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

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