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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: charity, compassion, generosity
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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    John Milton
    “Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: devil, lucifer, satan
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
    We find delight in the most loathsome things;
    Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
    And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: decadence, devil, horror
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King
    tags: devil, hell
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    “The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them. For example, when the British invaded India, many Indians accepted to work for the British to kill off Indians who resisted their occupation. So in other words, many Indians were hired to kill other Indians on behalf of the enemy for a paycheck. Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people - and people of other nations - for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.”
    ― Suzy Kassem
    tags: army, bad, battlefield, british, brothers, capitalism, chaos, combat, conflict, conscience, corruption, countries, danger, dangerous, deeds, destruction, devil, divided, division, ethics, evil, evil-acts, evil-men, greedy, helpless, hopeless, humanity, hungry, india, indians, mankind, mercenaries, middle-east, middle-east-conflict, military, minority, money, nations, needy, peace, people, political-science, politics, profit, reasoning, seduce, sociology, united, unity, unrest, war, warring, wealth, wiked, world
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: philosophy, poetry
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    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: poetry
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    tags: poetry, wisdom
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    Robert Frost
    “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: humor, poetry, religion
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    Steven Pinker
    “Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.”
    ― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
    tags: faith, humans, thought-provoking, violence
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    Thomas Browne
    “We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
    ― Sir Thomas Browne, The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
    tags: hope, humans
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    Helen Keller
    “Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: blindness, death, faith, inspirational, wisdom
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts
    tags: blindness, choice, ears, eyes
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