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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Jen Campbell
    “CUSTOMER: These books are really stupid, aren’t they?
    BOOKSELLER: Which ones?
    CUSTOMER: You know, the ones where animals like cats and mice are best friends.
    BOOKSELLER: I suppose they’re not very realistic, but then that’s fiction.
    CUSTOMER: They’re more than unrealistic; they’re really stupid.
    BOOKSELLER: Well, writers use that kind of thing to teach kids about accepting people different to themselves, you know?
    CUSTOMER: Yeah, well, books shouldn’t pretend that different people get on like that and that everything is ‘la de da’ and wonderful, should they? Kids should learn that life’s a bitch, and the sooner the better.”
    ― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: inspirational
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    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    ― Brigham Young
    tags: education, feminism, men, women
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    Robert Jordan
    “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
    ― Robert Jordan
    tags: forgiveness, men, women
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    George Orwell
    “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: life, satire, tyranny
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    George Orwell
    “The Seven Commandments:
    Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
    Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
    No animal shall wear clothes.
    No animal shall sleep in a bed.
    No animal shall drink alcohol.
    No animal shall kill any other animal.
    All animals are equal.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
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    “We lived in the attic,
    Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me,
    Now there are only three.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
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    “Children are very wise
    intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
    ― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
    tags: children, intuition, intuitive, kids, love, pretending, youth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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    George Carlin
    “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
    ― George Carlin
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    George Carlin
    “If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
    ― George Carlin
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    George Carlin
    “Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: cynicism, disillusionment, idealism
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: agreement, consensus, freedom, freedom-of-speech, unanimity
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: entertainment, fear, fiction, phobia, predictability, reality, unpredictability, unpredictability-of-life
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: break, employees, employment, food, herd-mentality, job, lunch, slavery, work
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: brainwash, compliment, conformity, criticism, herd, herd-mentality, independent-thinking, indoctrination, shakespeare
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: employment, heaven, heaven-and-hell, hell, humor, humour, interview, job, religion, the-purpose-of-life, unemployment
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: nietzsche, pollution, purity
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    3451 likes



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