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#1

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

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#2

“THE ROAD TO WISDOM

The road to wisdom?
-- Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.”
― Piet Hein

tags: err, grook, wisdom

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#3

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: books, obsession

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#4

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

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#5

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#6

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: heartache, love

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#7

“We all need colors to fill the blank spaces within the faint and drab outlines of our all-too-short lives.”
― Osama Siddique, Snuffing out the Moon

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#8

“HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels.
GEORGE: We all peel labels, sweetie; and when you get through the skin, all three layers, through the muscle, slosh aside the organs (An aside to NICK) them which is still sloshable--(Back to HONEY) and get down to bone...you know what you do then?
HONEY: (Terribly interested) No!
GEORGE: When you get down to bone, you haven't got all the way, yet. There's something inside the bone...the marrow...and that's what you gotta get at. (A strange smile at MARTHA)”
― Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

tags: bone, facade, labels, marrow

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#9

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
― Blaise Pascal

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#10

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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#11

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

tags: ignorance, life, our-town, simon-stimson, time

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#12

“Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

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#13

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#14

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

tags: books, library

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#15

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#16

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#17

“As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.”
― Monica Bellucci

tags: autonomy, choice, no-shame, own-accord, prostitute, sex-worker

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#18

“I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.”
― Rollo May

tags: be-you, be-yourself, empowerment, existentialism, independent-thinking, inspirational-life, life, life-lessons, strong

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#19

“...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”
― Jeremy Bentham

tags: philosophy, utilitarianism

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#20

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian

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#21

“Anni, amori e bicchieri di vino, nun se contano mai.”’ ‘“Years, lovers and glasses of wine; these things must not be counted.”
― Anthony Capella, The Food of Love

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#22

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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#23

“I weep without interruption. It's an unbroken flow of words and tears. With no pause for reflection. But I speak softer, every year a little softer. Perhaps. Slower too, every year a little slower. Perhaps. it is hard for me to judge. If so the pauses would be longer, between the words, the sentences, the syllables, the tears, I confuse them, the words and tears, my words are my tears, my eyes my mouth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Stories and Texts for Nothing

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#24

“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: cruelty, hell, man

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#25

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#26

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write

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#27

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: apocalypse-now, man, mind

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#28

“Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one’s back on American cinema.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

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#29

“Don’t ever promise to adore me forever. Let’s keep the feeling that this love of ours is a love without tomorow.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

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#30

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen

tags: love

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