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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: paradox
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    tags: behavior, history, psychology, self-deception
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    Orrin Woodward
    “Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.”
    ― Orrin Woodward
    tags: integrity, self-deception
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    ― George S. Patton
    tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Rita Mae Brown
    “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
    tags: love
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    Wyndham Lewis
    “Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
    ― Wyndham Lewis
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: love
    11950 likes

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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Voltaire
    “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: doubt
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    Voltaire
    “Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    Anna Godbersen
    “Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”
    ― Anna Godbersen, Splendor
    tags: gossip, humor, inspirational, jealousy
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: attitude, explain, gossip, life, people, public-opinion, time, wisdom
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    William Shakespeare
    “Rumour is a pipe
    Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
    And of so easy and so plain a stop
    That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
    The still-discordant wavering multitude,
    Can play upon it.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two
    tags: falsehood, gossip, libel, public-opinion, reputation, rumor, slander, wagging-tongues
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130128 likes

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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128893 likes

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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127102 likes



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