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#1

“Every hundred feet the world changes”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: change, travel

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#2

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#3

“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

tags: consciousness, non-fiction, philosophy, psychology

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#4

“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.

And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.

Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?

We live for such miracles.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

tags: consciousness, mind, miracle, thoughts, translation, universe

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#5

“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

tags: translation

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#6

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: discovery, travel

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#7

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

tags: beauty, travel

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#8

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: airports, humor, travel

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#9

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stress, travel

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#10

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems

tags: aspiration, heaven, inspirational

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#11

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#12

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable

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#13

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#14

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

tags: britain, british-empire, colonialism, imperialism, india, pukka-sahibs, war

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#15

“Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.”
― Olivier Weber

tags: adventure, africa, colonialism, french-writer, literature, report, travel-writer, war, war-reporter

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#16

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

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#17

“I hated men because they didn’t stay around and love me like a father: I could prick holes in them & show they were no father-material. I made them propose and then showed them they hadn’t a chance. I hated men because they didn’t have to suffer like a woman did. They could die or go to Spain. They could have fun while a woman had birth pangs. They could gamble while a woman skimped on the butter on the bread. Men, nasty lousy men.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#18

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#19

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: love, macbeth, play, tragedy, william-shakespeare

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#20

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: inspirational

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#21

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words

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#22

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: past

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#23

“But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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#24

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#25

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight

tags: enemies, friends, success

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#26

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

tags: adversity, adversity-inspirational, adversity-quotes, aptitude, attain, attainable, attainment, capacity, competency, difficulty, enemies, enemy, friend, friendship, friendship-true-and-loyal, hard-times, hard-work, hardship, loyal, loyalty, perseverance, perseverance-quotes, persevere, potential, potential-for-greatness, pressure, strength, strength-and-courage, strength-of-character, talent, talented

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#27

“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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#28

“If you think you are boring your audience, go slower not faster.”
― Gustav Mahler

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#29

“Here powers failed my high imagination:
But by now my desire and will were turned,
Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,
By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
― Dante Alighieri, Paradise

tags: desire, imagination, love, stars, transcendence

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#30

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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