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Authors: 17 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Emil Cioran (42/95)
Mark Twain (42/69)
Johann W. von Goethe (18/87)
Fran Lebowitz (12/12)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (9/30)
Arthur Schopenhauer (5/116)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Henri Bergson (1/17)
James Bryce (1/1)
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (0/27)
Elias Canetti (0/17)
Fernando Pessoa (0/16)
Gilles Deleuze (0/33)
Gustave Flaubert (0/6)
Jules Janin (0/1)
Nicolas de Chamfort (0/18)
Plinio il Vecchio (0/2)
Authors: 17 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Arthur Schopenhauer (5/116)
Bruno Cancellieri (1/2403)
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (0/27)
Elias Canetti (0/17)
Emil Cioran (42/95)
Fernando Pessoa (0/16)
Fran Lebowitz (12/12)
Gilles Deleuze (0/33)
Gustave Flaubert (0/6)
Henri Bergson (1/17)
James Bryce (1/1)
Johann W. von Goethe (18/87)
Jules Janin (0/1)
Mark Twain (42/69)
Nicolas de Chamfort (0/18)
Plinio il Vecchio (0/2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (9/30)

Subjects: 452 in order of recurrence Show in alphabetic order
Miscellaneous (552/2141)
Religion (138/415)
Mind (63/244)
Knowledge (59/361)
Love (42/239)
Life (33/139)
Truth (32/147)
Humour (31/74)
Marriage (29/99)
Psychology (29/231)
Politics (28/160)
Attention (27/30)
Changing (26/96)
Freedom (26/136)
Education (23/35)
Thinking (23/114)
God (22/88)
Mankind (22/82)
Work (19/36)
Death (17/61)
Stupidity (17/78)
Happiness (16/154)
Science (16/49)
Fear (15/46)
Philosophy (15/126)
Feelings (14/77)
Hope (14/35)
Human nature (14/189)
Morality (14/35)
Success (14/31)
Talking (14/31)
Madness (13/62)
Wisdom (13/93)
Conformism (12/46)
Responsibility (12/25)
Understanding (12/49)
War (12/22)
Writing (12/43)
Art (11/57)
History (11/28)
Intelligence (11/79)
Language (11/39)
Management (11/14)
Time (11/30)
Faith (10/17)
Future (10/24)
Human relations (10/333)
Perception (10/22)
Ageing (9/24)
Consciousness (9/30)
Ethics (9/84)
Judging (9/65)
Sex (9/49)
Solitude (9/127)
Violence (9/18)
Beauty (8/54)
Evolution (8/14)
Human values (8/25)
Ignorance (8/20)
Jokes (8/16)
Reading (8/19)
Women (8/81)
Democracy (7/11)
Failure (7/9)
Government (7/12)
Laughing (7/13)
Nature (7/24)
Problems and solutions (7/24)
Progress (7/22)
Reason (7/61)
Atheism (6/15)
Books (6/20)
Economy (6/13)
Friendship (6/34)
Human differences (6/58)
Imagination (6/27)
Information technology (6/11)
Law (6/18)
Learning (6/49)
Life and Death (6/25)
Music (6/22)
Society (6/64)
Beliefs (5/16)
Business (5/8)
Civilization (5/8)
Illusion (5/26)
Reality (5/18)
Teaching (5/15)
Technology (5/12)
Theory (5/10)
Will (5/41)
Action (4/5)
Communication (4/32)
Computer (4/7)
Creativity (4/22)
Crime (4/5)
Criticism (4/18)
Culture (4/24)
Doubting (4/14)
Dreaming (4/11)
Drinking (4/4)
Generosity (4/15)
Genius (4/21)
Goals (4/8)
Information (4/18)
Invention (4/5)
Listening (4/5)
Logics (4/14)
Lying (4/46)
Man & Animals (4/5)
Mediocrity (4/29)
Men and Women (4/20)
Money (4/35)
Motivations (4/127)
Peace (4/9)
Perfection (4/6)
Poetry (4/23)
Poverty (4/10)
Rationality (4/11)
Self-knowledge (4/10)
Universe (4/7)
Ability (3/8)
Anger (3/8)
Animals (3/5)
Appreciation (3/4)
Authority (3/4)
Boredom (3/8)
Children (3/16)
Choice (3/26)
Communism (3/4)
Cynism (3/5)
Ecology (3/11)
Equality (3/8)
Evil (3/20)
Experience (3/8)
Food (3/5)
Growing (3/4)
Honour (3/5)
Idealism (3/4)
Ideas (3/19)
Justice (3/21)
Leadership (3/19)
Memory (3/20)
Organization (3/6)
Personality (3/14)
Playing (3/5)
Possession (3/7)
Power (3/14)
Questions (3/10)
Quotations (3/3)
Reason and Feeling (3/14)
Revolutions (3/9)
Richness (3/11)
Self-control (3/8)
Simplicity (3/7)
Suicide (3/30)
Taste (3/7)
Virtue (3/16)
Adaptation (2/4)
Ambition (2/7)
Aphorisms (2/25)
Burocracy (2/3)
Censorship (2/4)
Chance (2/23)
Competition (2/9)
Conversation (2/10)
Courage (2/19)
Deception (2/6)
Diplomacy (2/3)
Emotions (2/8)
Error (2/18)
Facts (2/4)
Family (2/7)
Fault (2/5)
Fighting (2/2)
Fun (2/3)
Glory (2/3)
Good and Evil (2/19)
Gossip (2/3)
Honesty (2/8)
Hospitality (2/2)
Humility (2/9)
Ideals (2/3)
Idleness (2/5)
Indifference (2/8)
Innovation (2/2)
Internet (2/6)
Journalism (2/6)
Luck (2/9)
Neutrality (2/2)
Parents (2/6)
Passion (2/5)
Pleasure (2/19)
Prejudice (2/30)
Principles (2/3)
Ridicule (2/5)
Sadness (2/4)
School (2/6)
Shame (2/7)
Suffering (2/8)
Tact (2/3)
Talent (2/4)
Television (2/13)
Tolerance (2/9)
Unconscious (2/43)
Vanity (2/8)
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Advertising (1/2)
Advicing (1/6)
Aiming (1/1)
America (1/1)
Anarchy (1/3)
Apology (1/1)
Architecture (1/3)
Arguing (1/3)
Behaviour (1/2)
Bigotry (1/1)
Capitalism (1/2)
Catastrophe (1/1)
Celebrity (1/1)
Character (1/3)
Charity (1/3)
Commitment (1/1)
Conviction (1/1)
Cooking (1/1)
Cooperation (1/1)
Cowardice (1/3)
Crying (1/3)
Desire (1/4)
Desperation (1/1)
Destiny (1/6)
Destruction (1/1)
Devil (1/3)
Discipline (1/2)
Disobedience (1/6)
Duty (1/9)
Effectiveness (1/1)
Efficiency (1/2)
Egotism (1/11)
Envy (1/13)
Eternity (1/1)
Excellence (1/2)
Faithfulness (1/7)
Faking (1/5)
Fantasy (1/3)
Fashion (1/6)
Feminism (1/1)
Fools (1/1)
Forgiving (1/6)
Friendliness (1/2)
Generations (1/1)
Good breeding (1/1)
Gratitude (1/6)
Habit (1/7)
Harm (1/1)
Health (1/2)
Hell (1/6)
Help (1/2)
Hierarchy (1/7)
Human types (1/2)
Ideologies (1/2)
Illness (1/5)
Immortality (1/2)
Indignation (1/1)
Individualism (1/1)
Innocence (1/2)
Intellectuals (1/7)
Interactions (1/38)
Joy (1/3)
Kindness (1/3)
Kissing (1/2)
Laziness (1/4)
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Loss (1/1)
Marketing (1/1)
Martyrdom (1/4)
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Maxims (1/2)
Medicine (1/7)
Melancholy (1/1)
Memories (1/4)
Middle Ages (1/1)
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Misanthropy (1/14)
Moralism (1/4)
Mysticism (1/2)
Nations (1/1)
Normality (1/2)
Obedience (1/72)
Objectivity (1/2)
Opinions (1/4)
Optimism (1/7)
Pain (1/10)
Past (1/5)
Patience (1/5)
People (1/11)
Perfectionism (1/2)
Pessimism (1/5)
Photography (1/3)
Presumption (1/7)
Procreation (1/1)
Psychiatry (1/3)
Public property (1/1)
Punishment (1/2)
Racism (1/2)
Reputation (1/2)
Rich and Poor (1/3)
Risk (1/1)
Sacrifice (1/1)
Safety (1/1)
Secrets (1/7)
Self-esteem (1/9)
Sense (1/1)
Sharing (1/4)
Silence (1/4)
Sincerity (1/7)
Sleep (1/2)
Smiling (1/1)
Smoking (1/2)
Social identity (1/59)
Sorrow (1/2)
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Sport (1/5)
Statistics (1/1)
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Temptation (1/6)
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Watching (1/1)
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World (1/5)
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Youth (1/6)
Adultery (0/6)
Aesthetics (0/3)
Apparence (0/8)
Approval (0/2)
Beginning (0/1)
Bible (0/1)
Biographies (0/1)
Blame (0/1)
Bourgeoisie (0/1)
Brothers (0/1)
Calmness (0/1)
Calumny (0/2)
Career (0/3)
Chastity (0/2)
Cheating (0/1)
Cinema (0/2)
Clothing (0/1)
Common sense (0/2)
Confidence (0/4)
Contempt (0/1)
Coyness (0/3)
Critics (0/1)
Dignity (0/1)
Drugs (0/1)
Eating (0/2)
Elegance (0/1)
Empathy (0/0)
End of the world (0/2)
Enemies (0/6)
English people (0/1)
Enthusiasm (0/1)
Escape (0/1)
Etiquette (0/1)
Euthanasia (0/1)
Fame (0/5)
Fascination (0/2)
Faults (0/3)
Finance (0/1)
Forgetting (0/1)
Games (0/1)
Greed (0/1)
Hatred (0/12)
Heroism (0/2)
Human quality (0/3)
Hunger (0/6)
Hypocrisy (0/3)
Improvement (0/1)
Instinct (0/1)
Introversion (0/4)
Intuition (0/1)
Italians (0/5)
Italy (0/3)
Jealousy (0/1)
Lawyers (0/1)
Litigation (0/1)
Luxury (0/1)
Manners (0/1)
Market (0/2)
Mass (0/34)
Misfortune (0/4)
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Naivety (0/2)
Narcissism (0/2)
Nationalism (0/1)
Neighbors (0/1)
Obscurantism (0/1)
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Offending (0/2)
Opportunism (0/1)
Order (0/2)
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Overreaching (0/1)
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Providence (0/1)
Psychotherapists (0/7)
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Quitting (0/1)
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Relativism (0/1)
Repenting (0/1)
Research (0/1)
Respect (0/1)
Rights (0/1)
Roles (0/8)
Self-improvement (0/9)
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Shyness (0/2)
Social ladder (0/1)
Socializing (0/7)
Sociology (0/5)
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Speed (0/1)
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Style (0/1)
Sublime (0/1)
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Superstition (0/1)
Taxes (0/1)
Theater (0/3)
To be organized (0/164)
Tragedy (0/1)
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Ugliness (0/4)
Vengeance (0/3)
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Visions (0/1)
Weakness (0/3)
Wickedness (0/2)
Witches (0/1)
Worrying (0/1)
Worthiness (0/1)
Subjects: 452 in alphabetic order Show in order of recurrence
Ability (3/8)
Action (4/5)
Adaptation (2/4)
Admiration (1/4)
Adultery (0/6)
Advertising (1/2)
Advicing (1/6)
Aesthetics (0/3)
Ageing (9/24)
Aiming (1/1)
Ambition (2/7)
America (1/1)
Anarchy (1/3)
Anger (3/8)
Animals (3/5)
Aphorisms (2/25)
Apology (1/1)
Apparence (0/8)
Appreciation (3/4)
Approval (0/2)
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Arguing (1/3)
Art (11/57)
Atheism (6/15)
Attention (27/30)
Authority (3/4)
Beauty (8/54)
Beginning (0/1)
Behaviour (1/2)
Beliefs (5/16)
Bible (0/1)
Bigotry (1/1)
Biographies (0/1)
Blame (0/1)
Books (6/20)
Boredom (3/8)
Bourgeoisie (0/1)
Brothers (0/1)
Burocracy (2/3)
Business (5/8)
Calmness (0/1)
Calumny (0/2)
Capitalism (1/2)
Career (0/3)
Catastrophe (1/1)
Celebrity (1/1)
Censorship (2/4)
Chance (2/23)
Changing (26/96)
Character (1/3)
Charity (1/3)
Chastity (0/2)
Cheating (0/1)
Children (3/16)
Choice (3/26)
Cinema (0/2)
Civilization (5/8)
Clothing (0/1)
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Communism (3/4)
Competition (2/9)
Computer (4/7)
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Consciousness (9/30)
Contempt (0/1)
Conversation (2/10)
Conviction (1/1)
Cooking (1/1)
Cooperation (1/1)
Courage (2/19)
Cowardice (1/3)
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Creativity (4/22)
Crime (4/5)
Criticism (4/18)
Critics (0/1)
Crying (1/3)
Culture (4/24)
Cynism (3/5)
Death (17/61)
Deception (2/6)
Democracy (7/11)
Desire (1/4)
Desperation (1/1)
Destiny (1/6)
Destruction (1/1)
Devil (1/3)
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Disobedience (1/6)
Doubting (4/14)
Dreaming (4/11)
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Drugs (0/1)
Duty (1/9)
Eating (0/2)
Ecology (3/11)
Economy (6/13)
Education (23/35)
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Efficiency (1/2)
Egotism (1/11)
Elegance (0/1)
Emotions (2/8)
Empathy (0/0)
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Enemies (0/6)
English people (0/1)
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Error (2/18)
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Ethics (9/84)
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Euthanasia (0/1)
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Experience (3/8)
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Failure (7/9)
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Faking (1/5)
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Family (2/7)
Fantasy (1/3)
Fascination (0/2)
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Fear (15/46)
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Finance (0/1)
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Fools (1/1)
Forgetting (0/1)
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Freedom (26/136)
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Future (10/24)
Games (0/1)
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Genius (4/21)
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God (22/88)
Good and Evil (2/19)
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Gossip (2/3)
Government (7/12)
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Greed (0/1)
Growing (3/4)
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Hell (1/6)
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Honour (3/5)
Hope (14/35)
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Human differences (6/58)
Human nature (14/189)
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Human relations (10/333)
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Humour (31/74)
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Illusion (5/26)
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Indifference (2/8)
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Italians (0/5)
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Law (6/18)
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Love (42/239)
Luck (2/9)
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Lying (4/46)
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Misogyny (0/1)
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Narcissism (0/2)
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Nature (7/24)
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Objectivity (1/2)
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Occultism (0/1)
Offending (0/2)
Opinions (1/4)
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Optimism (1/7)
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Passion (2/5)
Past (1/5)
Patience (1/5)
Peace (4/9)
People (1/11)
Perception (10/22)
Perfection (4/6)
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Personality (3/14)
Pessimism (1/5)
Philosophy (15/126)
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Playing (3/5)
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Poetry (4/23)
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Possession (3/7)
Poverty (4/10)
Power (3/14)
Prayer (0/1)
Prejudice (2/30)
Presumption (1/7)
Pride (0/5)
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Progress (7/22)
Prostitution (0/1)
Providence (0/1)
Psychiatry (1/3)
Psychology (29/231)
Psychotherapists (0/7)
Public property (1/1)
Punishment (1/2)
Purity (0/2)
Questions (3/10)
Quitting (0/1)
Quotations (3/3)
Racism (1/2)
Rationality (4/11)
Reading (8/19)
Reality (5/18)
Reason (7/61)
Reason and Feeling (3/14)
Relatives (0/1)
Relativism (0/1)
Religion (138/415)
Repenting (0/1)
Reputation (1/2)
Research (0/1)
Respect (0/1)
Responsibility (12/25)
Revolutions (3/9)
Rich and Poor (1/3)
Richness (3/11)
Ridicule (2/5)
Rights (0/1)
Risk (1/1)
Roles (0/8)
Sacrifice (1/1)
Sadness (2/4)
Safety (1/1)
School (2/6)
Science (16/49)
Secrets (1/7)
Self-control (3/8)
Self-esteem (1/9)
Self-improvement (0/9)
Self-knowledge (4/10)
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Sense (1/1)
Seriosity (0/1)
Sex (9/49)
Shame (2/7)
Sharing (1/4)
Shyness (0/2)
Silence (1/4)
Simplicity (3/7)
Sincerity (1/7)
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6 quotes
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

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Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.


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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.


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8543E


In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.


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