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    Vladimir Lenin
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
    ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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    “The only thing humans are equal in is death.”
    ― Johan Liebert
    tags: monster, naoki-urasawa
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Joseph Goebbels
    “If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..”
    ― Joseph Goebbels
    tags: world-war-2
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    Adolf Hitler
    “My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: heroe, hitler, spirit, world
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    Augustus
    “Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause.”
    ― Augustus
    tags: ancient-rome, deathbed-quotes, emperor, history, roman
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    Thornton Wilder
    “All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
    ― Thornton Wilder
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Virgil
    “ Nunc scio quit sit amor. ”
    ― Virgil
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say. And if sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli
    tags: machiavellianism
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: searching, self-destruction, self-mutilation, truth, wisdom
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    George Santayana
    “History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten”
    ― George Santayana
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Sun Tzu
    “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.”
    ― Sun Tsu
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    Socrates
    “Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.”
    ― Socrates
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: becker, con-men, delusion, lies, nonsense
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am not altogether on anybody’s side, because nobody is altogether on my side, if you understand me: nobody cares for the woods as I care for them, not even Elves nowadays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: treebeard
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
    tags: defeat
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Thucydides
    “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
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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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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    tags: government, lies, marxism, socialism
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    Thomas Mann
    “Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?”
    ― Thomas Mann
    tags: history
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “How did you go bankrupt?"
    Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed...
    This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”
    ― Wilde, Oscar
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    Oscar Wilde
    “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: last-words, taste, wallpaper
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    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “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
    2313 likes



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