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#1

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

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#2

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age

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#3

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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#4

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#5

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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#6

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-craft, writing-humor

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#8

“No one understands now. Those who could
hear a song this deeply vanished long ago.”
― Li Po

tags: poetry-quotes

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#9

“He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.”
― Li Po

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#10

“The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po

tags: zazen-on-ching-t-ing-mountain

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#11

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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#12

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: failure, past, self, time

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#13

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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#14

“To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

tags: truth, wholeness

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#15

“Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.”
― R.D. Laing

tags: love, r-d-laing

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#16

“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”
― R.D. Laing

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#17

“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”
― R.D. Laing

tags: despair, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia

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#18

“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
― Thomas Carlyle

tags: originality

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#19

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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