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#1

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

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#2

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships

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#3

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#4

“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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#5

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#6

“რამაზ კინგკონგი ჩემი უსაყვარლესი დრაგმეითი იყო. და თუ ბუნებაში არსებობს ცნება „ქართული ოცნება“, რამაზ კინგკონგი ამ ცნების სრული ოპოზიტი იყო, ნამდვილი ქართული კოშმარი: სომეხი, ბარიგა და გეი. პლუს ზონდერად ნამუშევარი.”
― Zura Jishkariani, საღეჭი განთიადები: Sugar Free

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#7

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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#8

“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

tags: existentialism

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#9

“На другой день по приезде в Сочи он купался утром в море, потом брился, надел чистое белье, белоснежный китель, позавтракал в своей гостинице на террасе ресторана, выпил бутылку шампанского, пил кофе с шартрезом, не спеша выкурил сигару. Возвратясь в свой номер, он лег на диван и выстрелил себе в виски из двух револьверов.”
― И.А. Бунин, Темные аллеи

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#10

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: criticism, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, judgment, men, misogyny, poetry, respect, women, writing

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#11

“მოლაპარაკე პოლკოვნიკს მდუმარე პოლკოვნიკი ჯობდა.
მდუმარე - გაუტეხელ, ამაყ კაცს ჰგავდა. მოლაპარაკე - ერთ დიდ, ნაპრალიან კედელს, ან შუაზე გაჩეხილ მორს. თითო ამოოხვრაზე ნაპრალი თითო გოჯით ჩაიხეოდა ხოლმე.
პოლკოვნიკის ამბავი ყველაზე საშინელი იყო მთელს უდაბნოში, მიწისძვრაზე საშინელიც კი. ვინაიდან მიწისძვრას შეიძლება გადაურჩე, ამ ამბავს კი - ვერაფრით.
პოლკოვნიკის ამბავს სხვები ყვებოდნენ. თვითონ ერთხელ თქვა და მეორედ რომ ეთქვა, მოკვდებოდა.”
― Aka Morchiladze, უდაბნოს გლახები

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#12

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: books, censorship, reading

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#13

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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#14

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: evil, religious-conviction

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#15

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader

tags: attractivenessiveness, beliefs, evidence, persuasion, prejudice, proof, subjectivity

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#16

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: betrayal, frienship

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#17

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: curiosity, pride, vanity

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#18

“I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.”
― David Bowie

tags: david-bowie

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#19

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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#20

“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

tags: ironic

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#21

“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: humor

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#22

“Absolute confidence or clarity is the privilege of fools and fanatics.”
― Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs

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#23

“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging you to eat? Eat, eat eat. Your mother's cries. Do you hear them? You should be Bruce. Because I know that it's never left you alone. Now you can eat what you want to eat. For me, for you, for all the others. Now you can consume to your heart's content or your soul's destruction, whichever comes first. So eat.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

tags: coal, eat, eating, food, parents, tapeworm

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#24

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia

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#25

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
― Solon

tags: greek, happiness, history, philosophy, the-good-life

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#26

“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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#27

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#28

“Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

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#29

“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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#30

“Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?”
― Knut Hamsun, Pan

tags: food-for-thought

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