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#1

“Why are we concerned with art? To cross our frontiers, exceed our limitations, fill our emptiness - fulfil ourselves. This is not a condition but a process in which what is dark in us slowly becomes transparent.”
― Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre

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#2

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#3

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#4

“I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.”
― Layne Staley

tags: alice-in-chains, layne-staley, lost

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#5

“Things that happen are of no importance. But from everything that happens, there is a lesson to be learned.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

tags: life

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#6

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

tags: books, imagination, inspiration

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#7

“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source

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#8

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
― Baruch Spinoza

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#9

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#11

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: education, free-thought, philosophy

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#11

“Los cazadores matan para vencer un miedo que los enloquece y los pudre por dentro”
― Luis Sepulveda

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#12

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”
― Annie Lennox

tags: kindness

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#13

“Voir, c'est comprendre, juger, transformer, imaginer, oublier ou s'oublier, être ou disparaître.”
― Paul Éluard

tags: philosophy-of-life, poems

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#14

“They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway.”
― Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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#15

“...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

tags: activist, carbon-footprint, climate-change, climate-crisis, environmentalism, global-warming, greta-thunberg, inspirational, youth

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