Quotable quotes

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[Norri]

LUCK SWALLOWS ALL.

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

Remember: The amount of books you buy is nothing compared to the amount of books you don’t buy. You’re doing fine.

— Legonium (January 12, 2024)

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Some past periods are not memorable, while others seem much longer than their share of time.”

― opinterph

 

[Rand]

a quote nearly a century old​

 

[belamyi]

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a quote nearly a century old​

About a phaenomenon old as money and society.

 

[Alistair]

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells... and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there too.. a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower... both strange and familiar.

- Cornelia Funke, The Inkheart

 

[Araucaria]

“I was ashamed of myself when I realized, life is a costume party, and I attended it with my real face.”
— Franz Kafka, Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer
(1883 - 1924)

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“What you think of me does not change who I am.”

― Lailah Gifty Akita

 

[Alistair]

 

[Norri]

“We rebelled against God and God’s judgement was to cause our own desires to rebel against our rational good sense; our punishment for original sin is the infinitely of our new desires.”

A paraphrase of Saint Augustine from ‘The Dawn of Everything.’

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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Did the Buddha actually say this?

 

[Rand]

^ Quotationize says it’s a bogus Buddha quote.

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[Alistair]

 

[PalacePaul]

 

[Alistair]

 

[pornoboy]

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