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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

    And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

    "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

    "Certainly," said man.

    "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

    And He went away.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: creation, meaning-of-life, purpose
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    Franny Billingsley
    “If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?”
    ― Franny Billingsley, Chime
    tags: love, words
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    Bette Davis
    “When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
    ― Bette Davis
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, misogyny, opinions, speaking-out, stereotypes, women
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
    tags: empowerment, feminism, woman, women-s-strenth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Margaret Sanger
    “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
    ― Margaret Sanger
    tags: abortion, feminism, women
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    Will Rogers
    “Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence
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    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: mad-hatter, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: apocryphal, feminism
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”
    ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    tags: feminism, men, women
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: le-petit-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
    tags: le-petit-prince, life, love, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4075 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    Oscar Wilde
    “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
    Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
    ― T.S. Eliot
    tags: evil, good-intentions, morality
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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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    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    ― François Rabelais
    tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter
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    Karen Blixen
    “Do you know a cure for me?"

    "Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

    "Salt water?" I asked him.

    "Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    ― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
    tags: examined-life, life, meaning-of-life, plato, socrates, unexamined-life
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    Henry Miller
    “Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
    ― Henry Miller
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Anthony de Mello
    “As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
    ― Anthony de Mello
    tags: awakening, ideology, meaning-of-life, spirituality
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    Douglas Adams
    “The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: funny, meaning-of-life
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Leslie Feinberg
    “Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery.”
    ― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
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    Leslie Feinberg
    “But very quickly I discovered that passing didn't just mean slipping below the surface, it meant being buried alive. I was still me on the inside, trapped in there with all my wounds and fears. But I was no longer me on the outside.”
    ― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
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    Leslie Feinberg
    “Never underestimate the power of fiction to tell the truth.”
    ― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
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    Leslie Feinberg
    “The sky was black and strewn with stars. I felt alone on the planet. I was so scared I could hardly breathe. I didn't know where I was headed. I didn't know what to do with my life. I strained to look into my future, trying to picture the road ahead of me, searching for a glimpse of who I would become.
    All I could see was the night sky and the stars above me.”
    ― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues
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