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#1

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#2

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind

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#3

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#4

“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friedrich-nietzsche, suffering

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#6

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
― viggo mortensen

tags: art, cool, fun, humor, inspirational, wisdom

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#7

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: philosophical

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#8

“Once, the Lord of Light banished Dark, and all that stemmed from humanity. And men assumed a fleeting form. These are the roots of our world. Men are props on the stage of life, and no matter how tender, how exquisite... A lie will remain a lie!”
― Hidetaka Miyazaki, Dark Souls

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#8

“When a real battle starts, you’ll always find that there is no bravest man.”
― Jackson Crawford, The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

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#9

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#10

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#11

“A writer’s job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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#12

“That stuff is always interesting to me and I for the most part disagree with it, that, I can't relate to someone because I'm a different race, I'm a different gender, I have a different sexual orientation. And I always find it weird that people say that, but I'm like, but you're okay playing a murderer. Like, how can you relate to that but not to someone that's a different gender. So to me it's kind of nonsense, and I find that the more a person is real and complex and human, the more I relate to them, no matter what their background. Whatever identity they have.”
― Neil Druckmann

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#13

“Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!”
― Kurt Cobain

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#14

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: inspirational

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#15

“Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
― Kurt Cobain

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#16

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: activism, dissent, protest, truth-telling

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#17

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: different, humor, inspirational, misattributed, same, society

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#18

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: companionship, facade, friendship, genuine, kurt-cobain, shallow, superficial, true-blue

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“I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: gender-stereotypes, sexuality

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#20

“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: 1993, interview, the-advocate

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#21

“Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.”
― Kurt Cobain

tags: freedom, passion, punk, punk-rock

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