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    George Orwell
    “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: existentialism, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
    tags: existentialism
    737 likes

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    Anton Chekhov
    “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
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    David Eagleman
    “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
    ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
    tags: death, existentialism, human-condition, life, memory
    663 likes

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    Ernest Becker
    “The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: art, creativity, existentialism, humor, psychosis
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    José Saramago
    “Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
    ― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions
    tags: death, existentialism, human, human-condition, life, religion
    315 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: existentialism, mirror, nabokov
    217 likes

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    Jean-Luc Godard
    “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
    ― Jean-Luc Godard
    tags: courage, existentialism, godard, inspirational
    278 likes

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    Raymond Carver
    “This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”
    ― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
    tags: existentialism, gazebo, pessimism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
    tags: death, existentialism
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    Tom Stoppard
    “Uncertainty is the normal state.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    tags: existentialism
    48 likes

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    Sophocles
    “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
    ― Sophocles
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    Sophocles
    “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
    ― Sophocles
    tags: pain
    372 likes

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    Sophocles
    “A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: inspirational, learning
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    Sophocles
    “I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: hindsight, retrospect
    311 likes

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    Sophocles
    “Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: chance, fear, life, self-confidence, self-reliance
    267 likes

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    Sophocles
    “Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: classics, greek-literature, mythology
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    Sophocles
    “You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
    ― Sophocles
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    Sophocles
    “Tomorrow is tomorrow.
    Future cares have future cures,
    And we must mind today.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: living-in-the-present
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    Sophocles
    “Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: grief
    167 likes

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    Sophocles
    “We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: death, eternity, love
    203 likes

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    Sophocles
    “How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
    When there’s no help in truth.”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    tags: oedipus-rex
    170 likes

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    Sophocles
    “Leave me to my own absurdity.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: antigone, sophocles
    129 likes

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  • #27
    Sophocles
    “Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
    ― Sophocles, Electra
    tags: death
    114 likes

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    Sophocles
    “No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: bad-news, blame, scapegoats
    107 likes

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  • #29
    Sophocles
    “I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
    ― Sophocles, Antigone
    tags: alone, antigone, loneliness
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  • #30
    Tom Stoppard
    “Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    210 likes



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