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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#2

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

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#3

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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#4

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#5

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

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#6

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

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#7

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: betrayal, loyalty, relationships

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#8

“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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#9

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#10

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

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#11

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life, reality

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#12

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#13

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: life, regret

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#14

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

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#15

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#16

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

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#17

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

tags: paradoxes, prejudice

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#18

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: contentment, poverty, riches

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#19

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: happiness, happy-life, hope, inspirational, life, love

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#20

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

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#21

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#22

“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: meditation, mind, peace

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#23

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: self-acceptance, self-discovery, self-understanding

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#24

“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

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#25

“With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

tags: consciousness, despair, existential

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#26

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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#27

“When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: disillusionment

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#28

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#29

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
― J. Krishnamurti

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, joy, new, past

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#30

“Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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