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    Ayn Rand
    “We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: equality, humanity, skin
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    Orson Welles
    “We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
    ― Orson Wells
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: devil, hell, world
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: children, parents
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Arthur Golden
    “Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: adversity
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    Stanisław Jerzy Lec
    “Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
    ― Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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    Thomas Merton
    “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
    ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living
    tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Lao Tzu
    “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed
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    Pablo Picasso
    “The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, world
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    Alan Lightman
    “The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
    ― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
    tags: loneliness, sadness, tragedy
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    Philip Larkin
    “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
    They may not mean to, but they do.
    They fill you with the faults they had
    And add some extra, just for you.

    But they were fucked up in their turn
    By fools in old-style hats and coats,
    Who half the time were soppy-stern
    And half at one another's throats.

    Man hands on misery to man.
    It deepens like a coastal shelf.
    Get out as early as you can,
    And don't have any kids yourself.”
    ― Philip Larkin, High Windows
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    Baltasar Gracián
    “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
    ― Baltasar Gracián
    tags: friendship
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: fantasy, insanity, madness, normal, reality, rothfuss
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    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    ― Jean de La Fontaine, Fables
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
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  • #22
    “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
    ― Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve
    tags: forgiveness
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
    ― Edgar Allen Poe
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
    tags: manhatttan-project, nuclear-bomb, science, wwii
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    Albert Einstein
    “When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: fairy-tales
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I hold it true, whate'er befall;
    I feel it when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.

    Verse XXVII”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: bereavement, consolation, loss, love, poetry, sorrow
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    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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