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Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.


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Life is an audition.
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BRANDON SANDERSON Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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"You're lik...
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ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
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ANDREW GROSS Take a chance of your life, you're risking nothing in this planet.
NAZIM AMBALATH Egotism is an alphabet of one letter
SCOTTISH PROVERB I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
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JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful.
AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
ARDIT BALISHA The hardest step to take is always the first one.
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CARL MATHIEU Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy.
NITIN S DHARKAR Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ şarabın gazabından kork
çünkü fena kırmızıdır
kan tutar / tutan ölür
s...
ATTILâ İLHAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN “This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same”
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J. ORACOY Greatness is achieving something unimaginable and doing that feat with ease
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JUSTIN HARTLEY To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
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FRANTZ FANON The difference between leader and boss is that leaders set the rule for themselves to take along fol...
ANUJ SOMANY you can not understand what i feel for you. because your heart beats for some other one.
PRASOON DWIVEDI i am not rich, but my heart is enough rich that you can stay there for the rest of your life.
PRASOON DWIVEDI Keeping an eye on own self is an Introspection.
JYOTSNAJHA Watching on one’s doing and what he should do for his desires is an Introspection.
JYOTSNAJHA We are all but slaves to an ideal
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Strength is not a virtue of the strong but an illusion of the weak
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DAZZLїиG_Бципу Death is the conclusion of an everlasting essay.
ROSA M. BETANCES It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...
BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
RUSSELL BRAND Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
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