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    “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

    (John 11:25-26)”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: belief, charles-dickens, ever-after, everlasting-life, faith, paradise, resurrection, sydney-carton, tale-of-two-cities
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    Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused
    “Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one of them considered himself worthy of this thing ...”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Franz Kafka
    “One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks
    tags: belief, cell, crisis, death, prison, revelation, stuck-in-a-rut, suicide
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, politics, presidential
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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    Harper Lee
    “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: character, courage, inspirational, moral-courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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  • #12
    Maya Angelou
    “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: courage, love, trust
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: frienship, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
    succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: hope, laugh
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: planning, preparation
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: literature
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    It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
    “It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
    ― Frank Warren
    tags: breaking, children, hope, inspirational, inspiring, pith, save, world
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “- Why me?
    - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
    - Yes.
    - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: suicide
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