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Meet me through my favourite quotes.




"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (?)

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
- Baruch Spinoza

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"I doubt, therefore I might be."
- Someone

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
- Franz Kafka, The Trial

"All language is but a poor translation."
- Franz Kafka

"We accept the love we think we deserve."
- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
- Seneca

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
- Seneca

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
- Albert Einstein

"There is truth in wine and children"
- Plato

"Еве на врвот се искачив. Сам.
Тука не ме следи око ничие.
И што? Јас во себе пак го шепотам
Жалосниот сон на своето величие."
- „Врв“ - Poem by Blaze Koneski

"Ги пуштив реките да течат
дека се матни, дека мислат гласно,
и може некаде некому ќе речат
што не сум знаел да изразам јасно."
- „Реки“ - Poem by Blaze Koneski



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