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    Thomas Bernhard
    “It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”
    ― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles
    tags: death, sadness, sickness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humanity, insightful, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    William Shakespeare
    “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.”
    ― William Shakespeare
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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    “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
    It matters that you don't just give up.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: courage, curiosity, hopefulness, motivational, perseverance, universe, wonder
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    “Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
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  • #9
    “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
    ― Stephen Hawking
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    Virgil
    “Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
    tags: aeneid, book-vii, line-312
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    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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    Dante Alighieri
    “L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: grandness, love, passion, true-love
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    “Difficult as his task may be, so is writing an act that is perpetually longing in its attempt to cull the surreptitious meaning of life, which is always located experiences, beyond the obvious, possible, experience that is renewed with each new writing as if it were lived for the first time is the experience that drives today’s human being to live a perpetual state of tension as he stands face to face with destruction, death, torture, and solitude.”
    ― Luay Hamza Abbas, Closing His Eyes: Iraqi Short Stories
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    Donna Tartt
    “We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people – the ancients no less than us – have civilized themselves through the wilful repression of the old, animal self.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: control, self
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Фридрих Ницше
    tags: abyss, nietzsche
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: beauty, jealousy, vanity
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: wounds-to-the-heart
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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  • #25
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    R.F. Kuang
    “You asked how large my sorrow is. And I answered, like a river in spring flowing east.”
    ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic
    tags: li-yu, sorrow
    121 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
    prese costui de la bella persona
    che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.

    Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
    Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
    Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."

    "Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
    Seized him with my beautiful form
    That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.

    Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
    took me so strongly with delight in him
    That, as you see, it still abandons me not...”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: italian, italy, love, medieval-literature, poetry
    461 likes



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