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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
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    Anton Chekhov
    “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    tags: art, artists
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    William Shakespeare
    “You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
    tags: insults, shakespeare
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    John Steinbeck
    “It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
    tags: life
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: change-life
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Victor Hugo
    “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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    William Blake
    “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: betrayal, disappointment
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Lord Byron
    “There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Thomas Mann
    “It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
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    C.G. Jung
    “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
    tags: angels, demons
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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: identity, life, regret
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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