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    Dawn Powell
    “The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.”
    ― Dawn Powell
    tags: comedy, human-nature, humanity, repetition, tragedy
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    Sigmund Freud
    “The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
    tags: compulsion, repetition, repressed-memories, repression
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: housework, repetition, sisyphus
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: planning, preparation
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: planning, preparation
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “To be great, be whole;
    Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
    Be whole in everything. Put all you are
    Into the smallest thing you do.
    So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
    Because it blooms up above.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
    tags: truth, wholeness
    578 likes

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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: deities, deity, disguise, divine, divine-self, divinity, divinity-within, fool, god, godlike, godliness, godly, godly-reference, gods, higher-self, man
    103 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Forget safety.
    Live where you fear to live.
    Destroy your reputation.
    Be notorious.”
    ― Rumi
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: brevity, writing
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    Alain Badiou
    “Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
    ― Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
    tags: compulsion, evil, good, strength
    82 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor, the-paris-review, wisecracks, wit
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    Dorothy Parker
    “It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: abortion, inspirational
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Women and elephants never forget.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “But I don't give up; I forget why not.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    B.F. Skinner
    “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
    ― B. F. Skinner
    tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
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    B.F. Skinner
    “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ”
    ― B.F. Skinner
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: boredom, life, pain
    389 likes



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