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    Karel Čapek
    “Oh, Domin, nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”
    ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
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    Karel Čapek
    “A guilty party is being sought – a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.”
    ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: james-joyce, ulysses
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    Thomas Hardy
    “A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
    ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
    tags: strength, woman
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What labels me, negates me.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, control, equality, free-market, freedom, individual-freedom, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, natural-law, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, universal-ethics, voluntaryism
    318 likes

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    John Muir
    “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
    ― John Muir
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    Salvador Dalí
    “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: reality-dreams
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    John Muir
    “Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
    ― John Muir
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    Anthony Burgess
    “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: dystopia
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
    4470 likes

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    Nikola Tesla
    “Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Anthony Burgess
    “It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: evil, good, humanity, humans
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    Miguel Ruiz
    “There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
    ― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
    tags: distance, equanimity, freedom, letting-go, perspective, self-centeredness
    450 likes

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    Aldous Huxley
    “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: absolution, brooding, guilt, morality, remorse, repentance, wallowing, wrongdoing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: reality-bothered
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    “To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.”
    ― Cus D’Amato
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Arthur Miller
    “Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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    Arthur Miller
    “After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
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    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: inspirational
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: soul, souls
    1828 likes



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