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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: brain, mind
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    Plutarch
    “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
    ― Plutarch
    tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
    2320 likes

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    George Harrison
    “It's all in the mind.”
    ― George Harrison
    tags: beatles, mind, perception, psychology
    617 likes

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    Dumas Malone
    “The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”
    ― Dumas Malone, Jefferson the Virginian
    tags: bold, boldness, courtesy, mind, politeness, scabbard, sheathed, thomas-jefferson
    484 likes

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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: lolita, mind, poison, poisoning, vladimir-nabokov
    400 likes

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    Bernard Malamud
    “Where to look if you've lost your mind?”
    ― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
    tags: crazy, insanity, mind, sanity
    217 likes

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  • #7
    “The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.”
    ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: confuse, mind, run, straight
    148 likes

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    Obert Skye
    “There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”
    ― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
    tags: hiding, mind
    79 likes

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    Gary Snyder
    “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
    ― Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
    tags: buddhism, dharma, gary, mind, snyder, zen
    100 likes

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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: eyes, face, interpreter, mind, picture
    276 likes

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    E.M. Forster
    “We move between two darknesses.”
    ― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
    tags: mind, spirit
    34 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: absurd, absurdity, art, artist, ecstasy, experiment, experimentation, insane, insanity, intellectual, intellectualism, intelligence, madness, mind, out-of-my-mind, outrageous, philosophy, theory, thinking, thought, too-much
    127 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
    tags: humor, mind
    18 likes

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    Terry Tempest Williams
    “The mind creates those things that exist.”
    ― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
    tags: being, mind
    17 likes

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    Ernest Becker
    “The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: art, creativity, existentialism, humor, psychosis
    448 likes

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    Ernest Becker
    “Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: existentialism, meaning
    349 likes



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