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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “There is no right life in the wrong one.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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    David Lynch
    “I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.”
    ― David Lynch
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western
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    John Williams
    “Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
    ― John Williams, Stoner
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    John Steinbeck
    “It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
    tags: cannery-row, monterey, steinbeck
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    Lao Tzu
    “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no God and we are his prophets.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion
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    Samuel Beckett
    “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
    tags: crying, equilibrium, inspirational, tears
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    John Steinbeck
    “It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
    tags: life
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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    David Berman
    “...and my signature is drawn in magic marker
    on the lower right hand corner of the window

    so when something passes in the dark
    it's captured for a moment inside my work.”
    ― David Berman, Actual Air
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “We can't stop here, this is bat country!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Arthur Miller
    “Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
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    Walter Benjamin
    “There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
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    Louis Althusser
    “There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.”
    ― Louis Althusser
    tags: bias, interpretation, partiality, point-of-view, post-structuralist, reading
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    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”
    ― Georg Hegel
    tags: napoleon
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
    tags: enlightenment, mythology, reason, regression
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    Heraclitus
    “Nothing endures but change.”
    ― Heraclitus
    tags: change, impermanence, mujō, time, 無常
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    Aristotle
    “The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
    ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
    tags: pleasure, wisdom
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    Marcel Proust
    “The reality that I had known no longer existed. The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; remembrance of a particular form is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
    tags: memory
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    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
    ― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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    Samuel Beckett
    “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Endgame
    tags: death, life
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    Jacques Derrida
    “A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.”
    ― Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
    tags: deconstruction, philosophy
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    John Kennedy Toole
    “Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”
    ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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    Ben Lerner
    “The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.”
    ― Ben Lerner
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    David Foster Wallace
    “I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as "Mon" in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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