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#1

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: cute, euphoria, nostalgic

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#2

“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”
― George Carlin

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, humor, patriotism

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#3

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#4

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: funny, funny-but-true, hell, humor, introversion, introvert, introverts, parties, party, partying, people, saints, social, socializing

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#5

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: autumn, fall, solitude

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#6

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: life, living, poetry

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#7

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: emotion, logic

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#8

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

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#9

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: explanation, love, mystery

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#10

“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: love

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#11

“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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#12

“We live in the world when we love it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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#13

“Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity”
― Lao Tzu

tags: stillness

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#14

“Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?”
― Ramana Maharshi

tags: identity, meditation, self, stillness

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#15

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: alone, quiet, silence

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#16

“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

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#17

“The quiet sense of something lost”
― Tennyson

tags: lost, quiet, sense

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#18

“Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.”
― Amy Efaw, After

tags: quiet, shy

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#19

“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.

Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”
― Susan Cain

tags: cerebral, extroverts, introverts, persona, personality, power, quiet, reader, temperment, thinker, writer

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#20

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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#21

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#22

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: loneliness, solitude

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#23

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

tags: garcin, hell, people

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#24

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility

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#25

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination

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#26

“It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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#27

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

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#28

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism

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#29

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte

tags: truth

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#30

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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