Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

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When one gets used to never getting what they want, you know what happens? They end up not even knowing what they want.

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

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Even if you manage to hide the memories, or bury them deep down, you cannot erase history. History cannot be erased or altered. Because it would mean killing yourself.

Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow

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No one can terrorize an entire nation unless we all become accomplices.

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset

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The most offensive thing that your worst enemy could throw in your face doesn't compare to what your closest friends say about you behind your back.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Infatuation is a state of mental misery in which the life of our consciousness narrows, impoverishes, and paralyzes.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Love, which they depict as blind, is actually perceptive and insightful because the lover sees things that the indifferent person does not see, and that's why they love.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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We are not shot into existence like a rifle bullet with a completely determined trajectory. It is false to say that what determines us are the circumstances. On the contrary, the circumstances are the dilemma in front of which we have to make a decision. But it is our character that decides.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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The majority of men have an intellectual capacity that is far superior to the exercise they make of it.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Authentic love is always found made. In this love, one being becomes permanently and completely attached to another being. It is the love that begins with love.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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As long as there is someone who believes in an idea, the idea lives.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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The world is the sum total of our life possibilities.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Whoever does not truly feel lost is inexorably lost; that is to say, they never find themselves, they never come face to face with their own reality.