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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
    tags: darkside, life-lesson, psychology
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    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    ― Annie Proulx
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    Warsan Shire
    “You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
    ― Warsan Shire
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind
    tags: truth
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
    “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
    tags: guns, humor, hunting, perspective, shooting
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: indifference, misanthrope, social-anxiety
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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
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    Susan Cain
    “...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”
    ― Susan Cain
    tags: boredom, inner-life, introversion, loneliness, strengths
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    Susan Cain
    “Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Susan Cain
    “I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude.”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Susan Cain
    “A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may be as bold as a hero in battle, and yet have no self-confidence about trifles in the presence of strangers.”--Charles Darwin”
    ― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    “cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans. who sometimes give birth to their pain. instead of children. – hate”
    ― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
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    “if we must both be right. we will lose each other. – exile”
    ― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
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    Emilie Autumn
    “It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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    Emilie Autumn
    “I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.”
    ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
    tags: people
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    Lionel Shriver
    “The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”
    ― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
    tags: awkwardness, people, sociability
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again. And that was enough for me.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: charlie, sam, stephen-chbosky, the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower
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    Frida Kahlo
    “They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.”
    ― Frida Kahlo
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    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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    Sigmund Freud
    “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
    ― Sigmund Freud
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Thomas Szasz
    “When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..”
    ― Thomas Stephen Szasz
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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    tags: cowardice, inspirational, intolerance, tolerance
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    Fiona Apple
    “Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
    ― Fiona Apple
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