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wistquotes @wistquotes@friendica.world · 5d ago
A quotation from Hugo What was the crime? To complain. What was the crime? To suffer. Let misery hide and be silent, otherwise it is lèse-majesté.   [Quel était l’attentat? se plaindre. Quel était le crime? souffrir. Que la misère se cache et se taise, sinon elle est lèse-majesté.] Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 2, Book 9, ch. 2 (.2.9.2) (1869) [tr. Lavelle (2003)] More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85062/ #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugo #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #complaint #coverup #establishment #lesemajeste #misery #power #protest #suffering #treason #willfulignorance
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · 6d ago

Remember: chopsticks and forks had the same requirements document.

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wistquotes @wistquotes@friendica.world · Jul 10, 2026
A quotation from Robert Green Ingersoll    Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell?    Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy. Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre… #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #damnation #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternity #God #heaven #hell #punishment #universalism
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · Jul 05, 2026

Tradition (n). Peer pressure from dead people.

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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · Jul 03, 2026

It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals.

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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · Jul 01, 2026

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

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wistquotes @wistquotes@friendica.world · Jun 30, 2026
A quotation from Watterson HOBBES: If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some! Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist Calvin and Hobbes (1994-04-17) More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84754… #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #amusement #creativity #discovery #exploration #initiative #selfchallenging #selfstarter #strangeness #weirdness
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · Jun 29, 2026

It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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wistquotes @wistquotes@friendica.world · Jun 26, 2026
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld Absence weakens ordinary passions, but inflames great ones, as the wind extinguishes a candle, but fans a fire.   [L’absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.] François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶276 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)] More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra… #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucuald #absence #apart #fire #flames #love #passion #relationship #separation
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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · Jun 24, 2026

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

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Paul - Antifa. LGBTQ+ safe. @paulk@writing.exchange · May 02, 2026

If you drink your laxative with holy water, you can start a religious bowel movement.

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Veera Laukkarinen @mustikkasoppa@mementomori.social · Feb 23, 2026
Tuhannen unen polulla me etsimme todellisuutta. – Harari, Nexus #QOTD
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