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    Elbert Hubbard
    “Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: enemies, explanations, friends
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    George Orwell
    “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: enemies
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    Baltasar Gracián
    “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: advice, enemies, foolishness, friends, friendship, strategy, war, wisdom
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    Aesop
    “A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
    ― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables
    tags: disguise, double-talk, enemies, falsehood, friends, friendship, reliability
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: advice, enemies, self-reflection
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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Markus Zusak
    “A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, war
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war
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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: belief, hell, paraphrased, perception
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    T.S. Eliot
    “What is hell? Hell is oneself.
    Hell is alone, the other figures in it
    Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
    And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: hell, loneliness
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    Susan Beth Pfeffer
    “But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”
    ― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
    tags: death, hell
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    Susan Beth Pfeffer
    “I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.”
    ― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
    tags: loneliness, paradox, privacy
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    Susan Beth Pfeffer
    “But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.

    —Charlie”
    ― Susan Beth Pfeffer, This World We Live In
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    Markus Zusak
    “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: boys, hate, love
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    William Golding
    “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    ― William Golding
    tags: past, yesterday
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    Joseph Conrad
    “But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: kurtz, the-horror
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    Joseph Conrad
    “The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
    ― Joseph Conrad
    tags: chronic-illness, cure, cures, healing, illness, inspirational, recovery
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    Joseph Conrad
    “The mind of man is capable of anything.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: apocalypse-now, man, mind
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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: inspirational
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: hell, life
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4484 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: passion
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    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: loneliness
    2316 likes



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