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    Robert Browning
    “I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.”
    ― Robert Browning, Pauline: A Fragment of a confession
    tags: decay, delight, self-destruction
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    Robert Browning
    “My sun sets to rise again.”
    ― Robert Browning
    tags: inspirational, rebirth
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    Robert Browning
    “God is the perfect poet.”
    ― Robert Browning
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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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    George Washington Carver
    “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
    ― George Washington Carver
    tags: misattributed-buddha, tolerance, understanding
    778 likes

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    George Washington Carver
    “when you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world”
    ― George Washington Carver
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    George Washington Carver
    “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
    ― George Washington Carver
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    George Washington Carver
    “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ”
    ― George Washington Carver
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god-religion-happiness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: christ, need, religion
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    C.S. Lewis
    “What we work out in our journals we don’t take out on family and friends.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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  • #13
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
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    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either - Or
    tags: poets
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I
    tags: humor
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, possibilities
    757 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: god, redemption, saints, sinners
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  • #23
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Hope is a passion for the possible.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
    tags: ethics, hope, passion, philosophy, possibility, religion
    156 likes

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  • #24
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: kierkegaard, life, promises
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
    but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief
    that sustains thought and holds the world together.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: belief, doubt
    139 likes

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  • #26
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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  • #27
    Martin Luther
    “The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: animals, dogs
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Gratitude was never meant to be an excuse for giving up on the obstacles God has put before you. Some of the most magical things he can bring us require faith and a lot of planning.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adventures, careers, choices, circumstances, courage, do-overs, dreams, emotions, focus, friendship, future, goals, happiness, journeys, lessons, living-for-gods-best, love, modes, never-give-up, obstacles, plans, relentless, sequels, settling, signs, strength, symbols, tenacious, tomorrow-s-wave
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    Tor Ulven
    “I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and spent my time on artistic nonsense instead. Now it is too late. I am old and blind. I must content myself with hearing the garments fall. I dictated this.”
    ― Tor Ulven, Stein og speil: mixtum compositum
    tags: black-humor, resignation, wasted-youth
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: action, actions, communication, curiosity, honest, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, integrity, integrity-quotes, leadership, life, life-quotes, listen, listening, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, speak, speaking
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