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    Haruki Murakami
    “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
    tags: love, poem, relationships, romance
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Para leer en forma interrogativa

    Has visto
    verdaderamente has visto
    la nieve los astros los pasos afelpados de la brisa
    Has tocado
    de verdad has tocado
    el plato el pan la cara de esa mujer que tanto amas
    Has vivido
    como un golpe en la frente
    el instante el jadeo la caída la fuga
    Has sabido
    con cada poro de la piel sabido
    que tus ojos tus manos tu sexo tu blando corazón
    había que tirarlos
    había que llorarlos
    había que inventarlos otra vez.”
    ― Julio Cortazar
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Música! Melancólico alimento para los que vivimos de amor.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Rayuela
    tags: cortázar-rayuela, julio
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    J.D. Salinger
    “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: change, holden-caulfield, stasis
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  • #7
    Carol Shields
    “Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
    ― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
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  • #8
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The damaged loves the damaged.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
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    Ayn Rand
    “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
    ― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    tags: education
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    Andy Warhol
    “You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: creativity, individuality, originality, warhol
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: chaos, creativity, invention, originality, writing
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
    tags: art, creativity, writing
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: creativity, inspirational, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: creativity, self, self-improvement, words-of-wisdom
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  • #17
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
    ― Leonardo Da Vinci
    tags: creativity, life, self-development
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    Julio Cortázar
    “All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
    tags: creativity, distraction, writing
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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
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    Donald Ervin Knuth
    “An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
    ― Donald Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world
    tags: algorithms, computer-science, engineering, technology
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  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: answer, humor, life, meaning, question
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  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
    tags: logic
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  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor
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  • #24
    enlatia
    “-...Why do you uglify yourself? You are beautiful too.”

    -I could be more beautiful, but I fell victim to natural selection.”
    ― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy
    tags: beauty, comedy, darwin, humor, natural-selection, parody, reality, satire, science, ugliness
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    Michael J. Behe
    “In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.”
    ― Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
    tags: biology, chance, darwinism, evolution, id, intelligent-design, luck, macro-evolution, macroevolution, mutation, naturalism, science, serendipity
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  • #26
    “Life is stranger than biology textbooks.”
    ― David Rains Wallace, Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays
    tags: biology, life, strange
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    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further.

    {Letter of support to Charles Darwin on his theory of evolution}”
    ― Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
    tags: biology, charles-darwin, consequences, darwin, darwinian, doctrines, reasoning, science, support
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  • #28
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
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  • #29
    Paul Hoffman
    “Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”
    ― Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
    tags: mathematics
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    Haruki Murakami
    “As a teacher, Tengo pounded into his students' heads how voraciously mathematics demanded logic. Here things that could not be proven had no meaning, but once you had succeeded in proving something, the world's riddles settled into the palm of your hand like a tender oyster.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: math, mathematics
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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