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    Arthur Koestler
    “Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”
    ― Arthur Koestler
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    Arthur Koestler
    “The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.”
    ― Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
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    Nicolas Malebranche
    “Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.”
    ― Nicolas Malebranche
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    Simone Weil
    “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
    ― Simone Weil
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    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    ― Boris Pasternak
    tags: life
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    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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    Friedrich Hölderlin
    “You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.”
    ― Friedrich Hölderlin
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Man ought not, like a mushroom, to spring up
    And rot upon the ground that nourished him,
    Leaving no trace of life-like energy!”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea
    tags: laziness, purpose
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Danger takes from a man all power of thought”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea
    tags: danger, panic
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “For he who in unsettle times is weak,
    Adds to the evil, and expands its growth.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea
    tags: strength, weakness
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Hell is truth seen too late.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    tags: hell, timing, truth
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    Thomas Hobbes
    “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes
    tags: life-lessons, mistakes
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: character, talent
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: inspiration
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: chess, daring, ideas
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: magic
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    Novalis
    “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
    ― Novalis
    tags: healing, poetry
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