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  • #1
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #2
    Alice Walker
    “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
    Alice Walker, The Color Purple

  • #3
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”
    Fredrich Nietzsche

  • #4
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

  • #5
    Epicurus
    “He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.”
    Epicurus

  • #6
    Ayn Rand
    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #7
    Ayn Rand
    “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #8
    Ayn Rand
    “Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #9
    Ayn Rand
    “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
    Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

  • #10
    Ayn Rand
    “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #11
    Ayn Rand
    “He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #12
    Ayn Rand
    “The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”
    Ayn Rand

  • #13
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “I am my world.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #14
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #15
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #16
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
    Ursula K. LeGuin

  • #17
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • #18
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #19
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #20
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #21
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

  • #22
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #23
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #24
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia



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