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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Osamu Dazai
    “The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.”
    ― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: humor, philosophy
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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
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: arthur-schopenhauer, death, right, schopenhauer, suicide, title
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: education, mind, social-anxiety
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
    ― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
    tags: suicide
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
    ― Emil Cioran
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    Peter Wessel Zapffe
    “The modern barbarity of ‘saving’ the suicidal is based on a hairraising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”
    ― Peter Wessel Zapffe, Essays
    tags: pessimism, suicide
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    Thomas Ligotti
    “If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”
    ― Thomas Ligotti , The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
    tags: examined-life, limits, nothing, ride, road, seek, seeking, solitude, truth
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    Thomas Ligotti
    “Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
    ― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “I think... if it is true that
    there are as many minds as there
    are heads, then there are as many
    kinds of love as there are hearts.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul
    5653 likes

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    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
    tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: love, respect
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.”
    ― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: inspirational, literature, nikolai-gogol, russian-literature
    48 likes



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