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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: bonds, friendship, solitude
    1001 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    ― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery
    3501 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
    1655 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Carlo Rovelli
    “The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a flux of events; we are processes, for a brief time monotonous”
    ― Carlo Rovelli, La realtà non è come ci appare: La struttura elementare delle cose
    tags: atoms, being, life, matter, processes, reality, science, waves
    40 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
    ― Khalil Gibran
    tags: love, miscommunication
    316 likes

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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
    ― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
    307 likes

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Ted Chiang
    “People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.”
    ― Ted Chiang, The Best of Subterranean
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    Ernest Becker
    “Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: life
    138 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
    2250 likes

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  • #13
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: opportunity
    2256 likes

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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
    1152 likes

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    Ernest Becker
    “People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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    Ayn Rand
    “Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It?
    tags: excuses, rationalization
    251 likes

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    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
    tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen
    680 likes

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    Baruch Spinoza
    “A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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    Douglas R. Hofstadter
    “It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”
    ― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
    tags: chaos, order, science
    189 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
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    Carlo Rovelli
    “We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.”
    ― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    157 likes

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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
    ― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints
    404 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    Virgil
    “sic itur ad astra”
    ― Virgil
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
    2700 likes



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