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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “What's the bravest thing you ever did?
    He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: bravery, perseverance
    637 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    288 likes

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    David Mitchell
    “Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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  • #5
    Joseph Conrad
    “The beauty of the loved woman exists in the beauties of Nature.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Freya of the Seven Isles
    tags: love
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    Ryszard Kapuściński
    “If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”
    ― Ryszard Kapuściński
    tags: history, intelligence, logic, reason
    90 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
    93522 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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  • #9
    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
    2490 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #11
    Philip Gourevitch
    “Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
    ― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
    117 likes

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  • #12
    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
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  • #13
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
    13961 likes

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    Richard Flanagan
    “A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    155 likes

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    Richard Flanagan
    “There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
    104 likes

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    Richard Flanagan
    “In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”
    ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
    tags: loss, past
    48 likes

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  • #17
    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no God and we are his prophets.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: blasphemy, paraphrased, religion
    801 likes

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  • #18
    William Faulkner
    “Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
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  • #19
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    ― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse
    tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour
    2933 likes

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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
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    Julian Barnes
    “The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
    ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
    tags: government, patriotism, politics
    349 likes

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  • #23
    Julian Barnes
    “Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
    278 likes

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    Don DeLillo
    “Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
    ― Don DeLillio, Underworld
    202 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
    which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
    because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
    Every angel is terrible.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
    tags: beauty, inspirational
    1064 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Every angel is terrifying.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
    tags: angels, elegy, poetry
    346 likes

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  • #27
    Juan Rulfo
    “There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.”
    ― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
    tags: dreaming, life, village
    74 likes

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    Juan Rulfo
    “No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.”
    ― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
    41 likes

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    Juan Rulfo
    “Qué haré ahora con mis labios sin su boca para llenarlos? ¿Qué haré de mis adoloridos labios?”
    ― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
    tags: love, melancholy
    39 likes

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    Juan Rulfo
    “There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.”
    ― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
    35 likes



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