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    Thomas Harris
    “Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
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    Thomas Harris
    “It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
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    Thomas Harris
    “Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
    tags: life
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    Thomas Harris
    “Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “Silence can mock.”
    ― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
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    Thomas Harris
    “The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
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    Thomas Harris
    “There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named—the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
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  • #9
    “The beauty of those who live with intention, far exceeds those who merely exist.”
    ― Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15
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  • #10
    “I guess it’s true what they say, that a child is as mature as his parents are incompetent.” Yang”
    ― Yoshiki Tanaka, Dawn
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  • #11
    Nikita Gill
    “The monsters were never
    under my bed.
    Because the monsters
    were inside my head.


    I fear no monsters,
    for no monsters I see.
    Because all this time
    the monster has been me.”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: bedtime-story, depressed, depressed-quotes, depression, fear-quotes, insomnia, life, monster, monsters, monsters-quotes, poem, poetry, sad-quotes, sadness, sleep, story, truth
    533 likes

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  • #12
    Kentaro Miura
    “If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around”
    ― Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 1
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    Kentaro Miura
    “The leaping of one fish would never disturb the flow of the river.”
    ― Kentaro Miura, Berserk, Vol. 13
    tags: anime, berserk, manga
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
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    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    ― Benjamin Spock
    tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance
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  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
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    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology
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    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: history, humility, philosophy
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    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: philosophers, philosophy
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  • #21
    Robertson Davies
    “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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth
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  • #23
    Isaac Newton
    “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: nature, philosophy, simplicity, wisdom
    477 likes



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