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“When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

tags: success

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#2

“Good is not good, where better is expected”
― Thomas Fuller

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#3

“So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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#4

“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: compensation, searching, seeking

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#5

“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: japanese

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#6

“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

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#7

“In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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#8

“Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

tags: whiskey

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#9

“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: destiny

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#10

“Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

tags: dreams

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#11

“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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#12

“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

tags: grief, pain, sorrow

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#13

“When all is lost, the future still remains.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

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#14

“Good men have the fewest fears.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

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#15

“Example has more followers than reason.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

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#16

“Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

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#17

“Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.”
― Christian Nestell Bovee

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#18

“The way you look at it is the case, the way you approach it is the case—your attitude is your world.”
― Osho, The Mustard Seed: The Revolutionary Teachings of Jesus

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#19

“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
― kurt vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: corruption, music, nonfiction, politics

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#20

“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”
― Anton Pavlovič Čechov

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#21

“If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.”
― Anton Chekhov

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#22

“The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”
― Chekhov, Anton Chekhov, Anton

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#23

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: living

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#24

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

tags: art, artists

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#25

“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
― A.P. Chekhov

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#26

“When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: medical-treatment

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#27

“In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

tags: chekhov, litertature, plays, russian

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#28

“Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.”
― Anton Chekhov

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#29

“Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters

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#30

“Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.”
― Georges Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

tags: loyalty, solitude, sovereignty

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