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    Haruki Murakami
    “If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: desire, leaving
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: hajime
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    Gloria Whelan
    “They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
    ― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions: A Gripping Historical Novel about a Young Heroine's Survival and Identity Journey from Africa to England for Children
    tags: artistic, bohemian, change-the-world, doing, talking, visonary
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    Joe Abercrombie
    “The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.”
    ― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King
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    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    ― Daniel Pennac
    tags: books, reading, rights
    7001 likes

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    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
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    Susan Sontag
    “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
    ― Susan Sontag
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    “Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
    ― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein
    tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words
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    Ciprian Mitoceanu
    “Gradul de civilizaţie al unei ţări ar trebui să se măsoare în puşcăriaşi. Dacă într-o ţară lipsesc puşcăriaşii, nu înseamnă că lipseşte criminalitatea. E vorba despre alte tare ale „civilizaţiei” — corupţie, ignoranţă, lacune legislative.”
    ― Ciprian Mitoceanu, Insula Diavolului
    tags: justitie, sistemul-penitenciar
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    Harry Whitewolf
    “Your politics are so far right,
    They're wrong.”
    ― Harry Whitewolf, Rhyme and Rebellion
    tags: activism, poetry, politics, protest, rhyme-and-rebellion
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    Lord Dunsany
    “Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests."
    "It is so," said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a pause of their gladness.
    "Many strange things," he said, "have entered our village, coming from over there. And it may be that human folk are best, and the ways of the fields we know.”
    ― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter
    tags: magic, mundane, religion
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    Philip K. Dick
    “I feel the hot winds of karma driving me.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
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    Hannah Moskowitz
    “I like books. I thought you liked books."

    "Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit and hidden imagery.”
    ― Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth
    tags: bookporn, books, brainporn, subtext
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    Elif Shafak
    “When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.”
    ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
    tags: censorship, speak, voice
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doctors-mistake, news, opinions-of-others
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    Hélène Cixous
    “People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”
    ― Hélène Cixous
    tags: people
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Douglas Coupland
    “TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, JPod
    tags: humor
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    Harry Whitewolf
    “We're the propaganda monkeys.
    The digital download junkies.
    The skunk smoking geezers
    With an inflatable Jesus.
    We're the kitsch and cool.
    Divide and rule.”
    ― Harry Whitewolf, Propaganda Monkeys - Twenty Poems From My Twenties: 1996 - 2006
    tags: harry-whitewolf, poetry, propaganda
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    Albert Einstein
    “The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.”
    ― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Michio Kaku
    “If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
    ― Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: empowerment, marcus-aurelius, mind, philosophy, self-improvement, stoicism, thoughts
    312 likes

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    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
    3317 likes



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