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#1

“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

tags: intense, love, morbid, passion, smile, unrequited-love, venus-in-furs

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#2

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

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#3

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: adult, childhood, children, maturity

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#4

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

tags: death, inspirational, science, wonder

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#5

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”
― Albert Einstein

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#6

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: general, humor

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#7

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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#8

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D’SOUZA”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

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#9

“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.”
― Roger Ebert

tags: film, movies

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#10

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#11

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

tags: honesty, self-delusion

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#12

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison

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#13

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: open-mindedness, prejudice, truth

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#14

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox

tags: consciousness, cosmos, inspirational, life, universe

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#15

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

tags: consciousness, dreams, unconscious

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#16

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

tags: consciousness, matter, physics, science

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#17

“When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

tags: jaded

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#18

“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

tags: cold, desolation, jaded, lonley, sad-truth, winter

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#19

“Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: connections, fight, friendship, love, soul-connection, spirituality, unrequited-love

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#20

“I used to be fine in my loneliness
but something
or someone
snapped me out of it
and showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,
and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.
Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the air
by myself in the snow
and I was not okay.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

tags: alone, cold, company, going-on, hard, home, hurt, loneliness, lonely, love, myself, not-okay, prose, prose-poetry, smoking, snow, songwriter, the-glass-child, youth

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#21

“If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.”
― Eugene V. Debs

tags: chances, help, needy, poor, poverty, preacher

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#22

“This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdism

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#23

“Our true nationality is mankind.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: nationalism, racism

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#24

“To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: crying, dejan-stojanovic, dignity, feelings, hide, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, secret, thoughts, wisdom

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#25

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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#26

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: comedy, funny, interview, tragedy

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#27

“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”
― Philip Roth

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#28

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book--if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction. This is something that every child, smitten by books, understands immediately, though it's not at all a childish idea about the importance of reading.”
― Philip Roth

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#29

“You think I'm insane?" said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him.
"You're still in touch. I guess that's the test."
"Barely — barely."
"A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany."
Finnerty shook his head. "He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." He nodded, "Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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#30

“the area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience –
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

tags: bukowski

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