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#1

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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#2

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

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#3

“We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.”
― Tadeusz Konwicki, A Minor Apocalypse

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#4

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#5

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

tags: wisdom

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#6

“American history is parking lots.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America

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#7

“He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

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#8

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: sympathy

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#9

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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#10

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

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#11

“Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.”
― Robertson Davies, World of Wonders

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