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#1

“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: freedom, oppression

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“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
― Malcolm X

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“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-poetry

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“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: love

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#5

“I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.”
― Fredrich Nietzche

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#6

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#8

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#9

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

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#10

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

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#11

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#12

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#14

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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#15

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#16

“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: humor, writing

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#17

“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

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#18

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
― Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

tags: regret

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#19

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

tags: life, time

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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

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#21

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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#22

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: feminism

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#23

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

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#24

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

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“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity

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#27

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

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#28

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

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#29

“May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

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#30

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: love

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