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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: unique
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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  • #5
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
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  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    John Berger
    “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
    ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
    tags: chauvinism, misogyny, projection, sexism
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    John Berger
    “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her,
    you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity,
    thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had
    depicted for your own pleasure.
    The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make
    the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a
    sight.”
    ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
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    John Berger
    “The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical.

    You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity", thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.”
    ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
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  • #16
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: truth
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  • #17
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
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  • #18
    Esther Hicks
    “The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
    ― Esther Hicks
    tags: gift, happiness, selflessness
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  • #19
    Esther Hicks
    “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
    ― Esther Hicks, Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
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    Esther Hicks
    “You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.”
    ― Esther Hicks
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  • #21
    Ayn Rand
    “I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality
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    Ayn Rand
    “People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: lying, rearden, slave, truth, victim
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  • #23
    Ayn Rand
    “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Ayn Rand
    “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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  • #25
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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  • #26
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
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  • #27
    Audre Lorde
    “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
    ― audre lorde
    tags: preservation, self-care
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  • #28
    Karen Blixen
    “Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
    ― Isak Dinesen
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