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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#philosophy #wisdom #wise

If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers. ↗

— Toni Bentley

#sex #idea

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ↗

— Noel Coward

#discouraging #few #honesty #how #many

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#fly #higher #lower #you

The things you used to own, now they own you. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#things #fighting

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--or impossible-- to lose. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#achievement #treasured #worth #fighting

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ↗

— Karl Marx

#first #history #history repeats itself #itself #repeats

By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast! ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#howl #howl-s-moving-castle #sophie #tragedy

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#service #tragedy

To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#needs #philosophy-of-life #dreams