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    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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    Ayn Rand
    “[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

    [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: compromise, life, self, soul
    830 likes

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    John Milton
    “The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: heaven-and-hell, hell, lost, milton, paradise
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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
    That without hope we live on in desire.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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    John Milton
    “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, lucifer, rebellion, revolt, satan
    615 likes

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    Archimedes
    “Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
    ― Archimedes
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    Homer
    “No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
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    Homer
    “Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.”
    ― Homer, Iliad
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The path to paradise begins in hell.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: heaven, hell, paradise
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
    tags: faust
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
    tags: artifice, christopher-marlowe, faust, faustian, faustus, grand-plans, imprisionment, imprison, man, mankind, marlowe, mind, philosophical, planning, plans, sad-but-true, when-plans-go-wrong, when-things-fall-apart
    12 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
    ― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
    tags: philosophy
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: belief, gods, ideas
    632 likes

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  • #24
    Sophocles
    “Only a fool could be in love with death.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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    Sophocles
    “I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
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    Homer
    “Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    277 likes

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    Homer
    “Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
    I have seen worse sights than this.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    538 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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    T.S. Eliot
    “And I will show you something different from either
    Your shadow at morning striding behind you
    Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
    I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Winter kept us warm, covering
    Earth in forgetful snow”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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  • #32
    Candace Bushnell
    “Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
    ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
    tags: dating, humor, relationships, soulmates
    2753 likes

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  • #33
    John Lennon
    “Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, love, sun, universe
    844 likes



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