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    George Orwell
    “You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, george-orwell, hollow, orwell
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    George Orwell
    “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, george-orwell, language, socialism, totalitarianism
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
    12164 likes

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    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
    tags: love, sadness
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: beauty, music, sadness
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    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: comfort, sad, sadness
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: attraction, bad, bad-people, bait, cheat, cheaters, cheating, corrosive, devil, devilish, dog, dogs, evil, fake-friends, false-colour, fools, gift, hate, haters, hatred, love, michael-bassey-johnson, negative, negative-people, negativity, pretence, pretension, sycophants, trick, trickish, tricky, wolves
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: beliefs, life
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    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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    Adolf Hitler
    “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: philosophy, war
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    George Orwell
    “Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.”
    ― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
    tags: down-and-out-in-paris-and-london, freedom, george-orwell, money, poverty
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    George Orwell
    “Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, george-orwell, mindlessness, orthodox, orthodoxy, unconscious
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: death, inspirational, voice
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: charles-bukowski, injustice
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: charles-bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: charles-bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: charles-bukowski, crazy, life, novel, pulp, quotes, realistic-quote
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    Jeremy M. Wright
    “Life has a funny way of delivering a swift kick to the brain when you're not even paying attention.”
    ― Jeremy M. Wright, The Good Ship
    tags: humorous-quotations, lessons-in-life, life-lessons-quotes, realistic-quote, reality-of-life
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: acceptance, fears, reality-of-life
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    Justin Alcala
    “Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?”
    ― Justin Alcala
    tags: authors, horror, life-lessons, nightmares, nightmares-fear, reality-of-life
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    Kemi Sogunle
    “If you don't love yourself, you won't be happy with yourself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone else. You can't give the love you do not have. You can't make anyone love you without loving yourself first.”
    ― Kemi Sogunle
    tags: giving-love, inspirational-quotes, love, love-quotes, loving-one-another, loving-others, loving-someone, loving-yourself, loving-yourself-unconditionally, real-talk, reality-of-life, self-love, truth, unconditional-love
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski , Ham on Rye
    tags: campus, hide, real-world, reality, reality-of-life, theory
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  • #26
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: faith, god, wisdom
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    John Lennon
    “I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: god, organized-religion, religion, spirituality
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    Woody Allen
    “God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: god, humor, mankind, silence
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    George Carlin
    “You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do... I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get past around a minute, minute-and-a-half, I gotta get the f*** outta there.”
    ― George Carlin, It's Bad for Ya
    tags: cynicism, george-carlin
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