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#1

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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#2

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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#3

“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#4

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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#5

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering

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#6

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#7

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: conscious, disease, fyodor-dostoyevsky, illness, intellect, notes-from-the-underground, reason

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#8

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

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#9

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, inspiration, love, strength

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#10

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

tags: boredom, misattributed-vincent-van-gogh, passion

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#11

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

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#12

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
― Vincent Van Gogh

tags: courage, inaction, just-do-it, timidity

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#13

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: forever, sadness, van-gogh, vincent-van-goghogh

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#14

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
― Vincent van Gogh

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#15

“People are always ruining things for you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#16

“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: humor

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#17

“I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: mood, sarcasm, sarcastic

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#18

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#19

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#20

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: kurtz, the-horror

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#21

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#22

“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: apocalypse-now

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#23

“He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#24

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#25

“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#26

“I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#27

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: classic, fiction, marlow

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#28

“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#29

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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#30

“I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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