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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
    “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Randy Pausch
    “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance
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    Randy Pausch
    “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: advice, last-lecture, life, randy-pausch
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    Randy Pausch
    “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
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    Randy Pausch
    “It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: childhood-dream, inspirational
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    Randy Pausch
    “Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Randy Pausch
    “You can always change you plan, but only if you have one.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Randy Pausch
    “Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.”
    ― Randy Pausch
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    Randy Pausch
    “I've always admired people who are over-prepared.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
    tags: despair, self
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
    tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: pleasure
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: kierkegaard, life, promises
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: idleness, inaction, mediocrity
    606 likes



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