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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
    19428 likes

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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
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    Haruki Murakami
    “She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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    Haruki Murakami
    “two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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    Haruki Murakami
    “For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
    tags: time, waiting
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: choices
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
    4528 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Words are loaded pistols.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism
    647 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “In love, one and one are one.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
    639 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: friendship, love, philosophy, women
    439 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself. ”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, Le deuxième sexe, Tome II
    tags: biology, birth, education, gender, gender-realization, upbringing, women
    124 likes

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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
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  • #28
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: courtship, women
    114 likes

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  • #30
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    63 likes



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