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#1

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich

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#2

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: career, corporate, vocation

364 likes

#3

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

tags: truth

403 likes

#4

“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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#5

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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#6

“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

tags: time

482 likes

#7

“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

2108 likes

#8

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: writing

1776 likes

#9

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

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#10

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

1112 likes

#11

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

tags: love

819 likes

#12

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

tags: individuality, respect, uniqueness

1307 likes

#13

“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: love

690 likes

#14

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

tags: love

589 likes

#15

“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: attraction, love, strength

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#16

“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: reality

834 likes

#17

“You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#18

“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: discordian, discordianism, eternity, humor, joke

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#19

“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: actions, life, living, thoughts

383 likes

#20

“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.”
― Hermann Hesse, Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

tags: life, meaning-of-life

248 likes

#21

“But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

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#22

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

tags: humor, sadness

3088 likes

#23

“We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
― Nikolai Gogol

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#24

“April 43rd 2000

Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at last. That king is me. I only discovered this today. Frankly, it all came to me in a flash.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

tags: amusing, insanity, madness, sad

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#25

“He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: love

76 likes

#26

“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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#27

“...It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an octopus that doesn't even exist.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Definitely Maybe

tags: nonsense, octopi, pants

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#28

“I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Definitely Maybe

tags: choices, definitely-maybe

9 likes

#29

“But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

44 likes

#30

“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

tags: being-different, free-will, life, recipe

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