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#1

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

tags: war, ww1

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#2

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

tags: romance

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#3

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. ”
― Erich Maria Remarque

tags: arch-of-triumph

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#4

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

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#5

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

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#6

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: desk, viewpoint

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#7

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots

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#8

“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

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#9

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: happiness

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#10

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: existence, truth

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#11

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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#12

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#13

“Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
― Theodore Dreiser

tags: inadequacy-of-words, words, writing

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#14

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

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#15

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

tags: stories-writing

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#16

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement

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#17

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration

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#18

“Man is born in order to think (there he is, Kirill, finally!). Except that I don't believe that. I've never believed it, and I still don't believe it, and what man is born for -I have no idea. He's born, that's all. Scrapes by as best he can.”
― Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

tags: human-condition, meaning-of-life

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#19

“Мы будем делать Добро из Зла, потому что его больше не из чего делать.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

tags: science-fiction

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#20

“Strange department, this. Their motto was: "The comprehension of Infinity requires infinite time." I did not argue with that, but then they derived an unexpected conclusion from it: Therefore work or not, it´s all the same."
In the interests of not increasing the entropy of the universe, they did not work.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

tags: monday-begins-on-saturday

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#21

“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.”
― George Mikes, How to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

tags: order, queuing, the-english

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#22

“You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.”
― George Mikes

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#23

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: baths, deeds, depression

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#24

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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#25

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

tags: punctuality

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#26

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

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#27

“Charles de Gaulle once said, “The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.”
― Barry Tomalin, France - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

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