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    Richard Brautigan
    “all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
    ― richard brautigan
    tags: life, purpose
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
    7375 likes

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    Richard Brautigan
    “All girls should have a poem
    written for them even if
    we have to turn this God-damn world
    upside down to do it.”
    ― Richard Brautigan
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    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: dissent, patriotism, protest
    1114 likes

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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
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  • #9
    Plato
    “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
    ― Plato, Phaedrus
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    James Baldwin
    “I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #12
    Aristotle
    “Hope is a waking dream.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: dreams, hope
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  • #13
    Epictetus
    “You become what you give your attention to.”
    ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
    6600 likes

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    Reinaldo Arenas
    “Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.”
    ― Reinaldo Arenas
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
    4556 likes

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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
    6860 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2085 likes

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    Gore Vidal
    “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
    ― Gore Vidal
    tags: style
    346 likes

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    Sophocles
    “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: change, character, course, crime, failure, mistakes, pride, yield
    1253 likes

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  • #21
    “What is the great passion of your life?" I asked.
    "Beauty," he replied without hesitation.”
    ― Glenn Clark, The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
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    “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
    ― Glenn Clark
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
    ― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
    tags: life-universe-creation
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
    3353 likes

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    Stanley Tucci
    “If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.”
    ― Stanley Tucci
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    J.L. Carr
    “By nature we are creatures of hope, always ready to be deceived again, caught by the marvel that might be wrapped in the grubbiest brown paper parcel.”
    ― J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
    tags: a-month-in-the-country, hope, j-l-carr, metaphor
    11 likes



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