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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: hate, love
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
    ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hope, inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hatred, wisdom
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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
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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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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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Immanuel Kant
    “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: contentment, poverty, riches
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns
    tags: act, humanity, means-to-an-end, morality
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    John Newton
    “I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
    ― John Newton
    tags: i-am, inspirational
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    John Newton
    “Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
    That saved a wretch like me!
    I once was lost but now am found,
    Was blind but now i see.”
    ― John Newton, Amazing Grace
    tags: hymn
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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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    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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  • #25
    “A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
    ― African Proverb
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    Hildegard von Bingen
    “We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
    ― Hildegard of Bingen
    tags: individualism
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