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    Carl Sagan
    “In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: emptiness, humanity, loneliness, love, space
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    ― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
    tags: 1946, language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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    George Orwell
    “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four
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    George Orwell
    “Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: orthodoxy
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    George Orwell
    “Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    George Orwell
    “She's beautiful,' he murmured.
    'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.
    'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: beautiful, beauty, fat, inspirational, style
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
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    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    ― Albert Camus, The First Man
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    Albert Camus
    “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Larry Niven
    “Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. ”
    ― Larry Niven
    tags: fun, nature, science
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    Larry Niven
    “1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
    1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.”
    ― Larry Niven, N-Space
    tags: common-sense
    40 likes

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    Larry Niven
    “Never fire a laser at a mirror. ”
    ― Larry Niven
    tags: science
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    Larry Niven
    “Ethics change with technology.”
    ― Larry Niven, N-Space
    tags: ethics, technology
    36 likes

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    Larry Niven
    “A civilization has the ethics it can afford”
    ― Larry Niven
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    Larry Niven
    “The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
    ― Larry Niven, Ringworld
    tags: science-fiction, social-commentary
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    Larry Niven
    “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”
    ― Larry Niven
    tags: dinosaurs, extinction, insightful, space-exploration
    136 likes

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    Larry Niven
    “Never tell a computer to forget it.”
    ― Larry Niven, A World Out of Time
    tags: science-fiction
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    Larry Niven
    “I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"

    He shook his head.

    "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”
    ― Larry Niven
    tags: things-i-ve-learned
    20 likes

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    Larry Niven
    “The majority is always sane”
    ― Larry Niven
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    Larry Niven
    “Everything starts as somebody's dream.”
    ― Larry Niven
    tags: dreams, inspirational, quotes
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  • #30
    Ray Bradbury
    “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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