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#1

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

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#2

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

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#3

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

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#4

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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#5

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
― Anais Nin

tags: diary-entry

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#6

“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: eyes, lies, tongue, truth

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#7

“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”
― William Boyd, Cork

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#8

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: education, education-system, instituions

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#9

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

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#10

“The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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#11

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#12

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

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#13

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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#14

“Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.”
― A.M. Homes

tags: books

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#15

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: life

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#16

“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

tags: love, suffering

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#17

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#18

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#19

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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#20

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

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#21

“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

tags: consider-phlebas

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#22

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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#23

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#24

“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: dreams, life

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#25

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

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#26

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: pride, reading, writers

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#27

“Niets bestaat dat niet iets anders aanraakt.”
― Jeroen Brouwers, Bezonken rood

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#28

“Ideal reading experience? Wine. Armchair. Raining. Or reading in the same room as someone else who’s reading. It’s rare, but there’s a particular sort of peace to it.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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#29

“God schiep de dag, en wij sleepten ons erdoorheen”
― Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen

tags: humor

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#30

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

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