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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “From "Wetness and Water"

    How does a part of the world leave the world?
    How can wetness leave water?

    Do not try to put out a fire
    by throwing on more fire.
    Do not wash a wound with blood.

    No matter how fast you run,
    your shadow more than keeps up.
    Sometimes it's in front.

    Only full, overhead sun
    diminishes your shadow.

    But that shadow has been serving you.
    What hurts you blesses you.
    Darkness is your candle.
    Your boundaries are your quest.”
    ― Rumi, The Big Red Book
    tags: duality, inspirational, self-awareness
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din, مثنوی معنوی
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love
    572 likes

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    Ibn Battuta
    “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
    ― Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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    Mark Twain
    “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-to-mark-twain, quote-investigator
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Meša Selimović
    “Bismilahir-rahmanir-rahim!
    I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script,
    which flows from the quill;
    I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening,
    the night and all she enlivens;
    I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns.
    I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself;
    I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.”
    ― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish
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    Plato
    “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    ― Plato
    tags: politics
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    Ludwig Feuerbach
    “As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.”
    ― Ludwig Feuerbach
    tags: 1833, abelard-and-heloise, book, books, reading
    137 likes

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    Ludwig Feuerbach
    “I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
    ― Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity
    tags: angel, character, devil, falsehood, inspirational, truth
    110 likes

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  • #13
    Jonathan Swift
    “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational
    231 likes

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  • #14
    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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    Terence McKenna
    “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: illegal, psychedelics
    505 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
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    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Women
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life
    1871 likes

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  • #22
    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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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: impossible, lick, longing, remembering, world
    70 likes

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  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #26
    Aristotle
    “Wit is educated insolence.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: definitions, humor
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  • #27
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: peace, war
    42 likes

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: government
    675 likes

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  • #29
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
    tags: paradoxes, prejudice
    375 likes

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  • #30
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
    ― Rousseau Jean-Jacques
    tags: ego, emile, life, simplicity, vanity
    219 likes



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