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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    ― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
    1031 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
    5365 likes

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    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
    2412 likes

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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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    Katherine Anne Porter
    “The past is never where you think you left it.”
    ― Katherine Anne Porter
    tags: past
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time
    1330 likes

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  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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  • #9
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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  • #10
    Franz Kafka
    “I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: darkness
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    David Bowie
    “I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”
    ― David Bowie
    tags: acting, david-bowie, human, superhuman
    358 likes

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  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: suicide
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    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: silence
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: silence, understand
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  • #15
    Ansel Adams
    “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
    ― Ansel Adams
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    Henry Miller
    “I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
    ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
    tags: despair, silence, solitude
    1694 likes

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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence
    1076 likes

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  • #18
    Edith Sitwell
    “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
    ― Edith Sitwell
    tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence
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  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: silence
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    Pythagoras
    “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
    ― Pythagoras
    tags: silence, words
    420 likes

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    Kahlil Gibran
    “My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Madman
    tags: identity, silence
    152 likes

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    Clive Barker
    “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
    ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
    tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness
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  • #23
    Marcellus Emants
    “Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round”
    ― Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession
    tags: happiness, pleasure, reflection
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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
    42514 likes

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: conscience, life, sadness
    554 likes

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “We look before and after,
    And pine for what is not;
    Our sincerest laughter
    With some pain is fraught;
    Our sweetest songs are those that tell
    Of saddest thought.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    293 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
    7957 likes

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  • #28
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    1284 likes

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  • #29
    Charlotte Brontë
    “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: eyes, interpretation, mind, soul
    1291 likes

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  • #30
    Lana Del Rey
    “I was always an unusual girl.
    My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
    ― Lana Del Rey
    tags: born-to-die, chameleon, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, moral-compass, mother, music, ocean, personality, pop, ride, single, song, soul, unusual, wise
    1357 likes



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