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    Yukio Mishima
    “An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”
    ― Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
    tags: defeat, man, ugliness
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    Gertrude Stein
    “It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: genius, humor
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    Gertrude Stein
    “Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: humour
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: gratitude, happiness
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism, needs, selfishness, vice
    1935 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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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    Alex Haley
    “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
    ― Alex Haley
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    Reza Aslan
    “...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
    ― Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
    tags: bible, biblical-scholarship, fact, history, scholarship, truth
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    Haruki Murakami
    “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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    الصادق النيهوم
    “.. يا رب، دع سماءك تمطر كتباً، دعها تمطر مدارس جيدة ومعمين وكتباً، وسوف نصنع نحن المطر، ونغسل عارنا”
    ― الصادق النيهوم, تحية طيبة وبعد
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    شارل بودلير
    “الشيءُ المُسْكِر في أن تتعامل بقلّة ذوق ، هو تلك المتعة الأرستقراطية في أن لا تكون في محلّ إعجاب”
    ― شارل بودلير, اليوميات
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    شارل بودلير
    “لا تحتقروا حساسيّة أحد ، حساسية كلٍّ منّا هي عبقريته”
    ― شارل بودلير, اليوميات
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
    tags: life
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    علي مصباح
    “كثيرًا ما يتحول المترجم إلي قاتل!”
    ― علي مصباح
    tags: كتاب, هكذا-تكلم-زرادشت
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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    فيودور دوستويفسكي
    “إن الرب قد خلق الضياء في اليوم الأول، وفي اليوم الرابع خلق الشمس والقمر والنجوم، فمن أين جاء الضياء إذن في اليوم الأول .”
    ― فيودور دوستويفسكي, الإخوة كارامازوف #1
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    Noam Chomsky
    “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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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
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    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
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    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: philosophy, science
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    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
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    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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    Martin Heidegger
    “Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
    ― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
    tags: being-and-time, heidegger, philosophy
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    عبد الله القصيمي
    “إن العرب ليظلون يتحدثون بضجيج و إدعاء عن أمجادهم و انتصاراتهم الخطابية حتى ليذهبون يحسبون أن ما قالوه قد فعلوه ، و أنه لم يبق شيئا عظيم أو جيد لم يفعلوه لكي يفعلوه .. إن من آصل و أرسخ و أشهر مواهبم أن يعتقدوا أنهم قد فعلوا الشيء لأنهم قد تحدثوا عنه.”
    ― عبد الله القصيمي, العرب ظاهرة صوتية
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