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#1

“It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
― Paul Auster

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#2

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#3

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: inspirational, lyrics, music, self-discovery, songs

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#4

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#5

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte

tags: truth

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#6

“Don't criticize what you can't understand.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: condemnation, criticism, song-lyrics

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#7

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

tags: existence, identity, old-friends

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#8

“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”
― Bob Dylan

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#9

“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”
― Bob Dylan

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#10

“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it”
― Bob Dylan

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#11

“It's not dark yet
But it's getting there”
― Bob Dylan

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#12

“A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to...”
― Bob Dylan

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#13

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions

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#14

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: boredom, habits

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#15

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: beauty

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#16

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: happiness, money, pursuit-of-happiness

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#17

“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#18

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
― Albert Camus

tags: courage, cowardice, philosophy

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#19

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty

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#20

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

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#21

“A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

tags: class, down-and-out-in-paris-and-london, education, fear, george-orwell, hierarchy, labor, leisure, mob, poverty, slavery

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#22

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

tags: science

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#23

“Most people don't know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It's very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to... As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”
― John Cassavetes

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#24

“We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other”
― John Cassavetes

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#25

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

tags: depression, sadness

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#26

“There's no tyrant like a brain. ”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

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#27

“Those who can't remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever.”
― Mark Fisher

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#28

“Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering”
― E.O. Wilson

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#29

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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#30

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, science

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