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#1

“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: flâneur

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#2

“التناقض الاجتماعي كامن في اعماق الشاب العربي ،فهو يقلد الشاب الغربي في أفانين الغرام ،ولكنه في الزواج يريد تقليد أبيه وأعمامه وأخواله . إنه في غرامياته (دون جوان) وفي زواجه (حاج عليوي”
― علي الوردي

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#3

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#4

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#5

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#6

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#7

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: reality

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#8

“You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam

tags: book, humanity, inspirational, jeffrey, kindness, lang, love, peace, philosophy, quran, religion, spiritual, struggle, surrender

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#9

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

tags: indifference, misanthrope, social-anxiety

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#10

“I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.”
― Woody Allen

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#11

“While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.”
― Woody Allen

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#12

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

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