GREAT QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

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

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” - Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” - Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” - Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” - Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -  George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” - George Bernard Shaw

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.” - George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” -  George Bernard Shaw

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -  George Orwell

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”-  George Orwell, 1984

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” -  George Orwell

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” - George Orwell, 1984

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” -  George Orwell

GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow

Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead

Walk beside me… just be my friend” -  Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -  Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -  Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” - Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” -  Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” - Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.” - Albert Camus

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” - Albert Camus

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” - Albert Camus, The Fall

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

GREAT QUOTES OF HOMER

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF HOMER

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.” - Homer, The Iliad

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” -  Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” - Homer, The Iliad

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time” - Homer, The Odyssey

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;

I have seen worse sights than this.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother” - Homer, The Odyssey

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” - Homer, The Iliad

GREAT QUOTES OF FRANZ KAFKA

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF KAFKA

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” - Franz Kafka

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” - Franz Kafka

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” - Franz Kafka

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.” - Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” - Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.” - Franz Kafka