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#1

“Long ago, in my wide bed, I had asked Odysseus: “What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?” He’d smiled in the firelight. “That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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#2

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

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#3

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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#4

“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: bdsm-sex, leadership, politics, tyranny

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#5

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
― William James

tags: habits, indecision, misery

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#6

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

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#7

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#8

“She had learned that words are not always promises, that music cannot save you, that your own abilities do not always lead to their predestined objective, that love is sometimes just camouflage for something much worse; she had learned to tame her dreams, had learned to paint over her disappointments with a dash of lipstick;”
― Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

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#9

“By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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#10

“The human microbiota is a fundamental component of what it means to be human.”
― Emeran Mayer, The Mind-Gut Connection By Emeran Mayer & How to Build a Healthy Brain By Kimberley Wilson 2 Books Collection Set

tags: insightful-quote

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#11

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#12

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#13

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: procrastination

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#14

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

tags: beauty

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#15

“Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

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#16

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea

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#17

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto

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#18

“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

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#19

“It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

tags: life-experience, love-hurts

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#20

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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#21

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

tags: decision, feeling, fromm, love

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