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#1

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

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#2

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Emmanuel Kant

tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment

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#3

“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: balloon, haruki-murakami, may-kasahara, the-wind-up-bird-chronicle

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#4

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
― Immanuel Kant

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#6

“Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild..”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

tags: immanuel-kant

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#6

“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”
― Immanuel Kant

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#7

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
― René Descartes

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#8

“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
― P.D. Ouspensky

tags: awakening, reality, truth

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#9

“فی‌الجمله تو را یک سخن بگویم؛ این مردمان به نفاق خوش‌دل می‌شوند و به راستی غمگین. با مردمان به نفاق می‌باید زیست، تا در میان ایشان با خوشی باشی. همین که راستی آغاز کردی، به کوه و بیابان برون می‌باید رفت که میان خلق راه نیست”
― شمس تبریزی, مقالات شمس

tags: انزوا, تنهایی

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#10

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: freedom, solitude

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#11

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays

tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing

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#12

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy

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#13

“قد يكون الشعر بالنسبة للإنسان السعيد ترفاً ذهنياً محضاً، غير أنه بالنسبة للمحزون وسيلة حياة”
― نازك الملائكة

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#14

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, mask, self

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#15

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#16

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: atlas, shrugged

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#17

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: john-galt

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