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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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: self-exploration
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
    “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
    tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness
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    John Green
    “I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    ― John Green
    tags: vlog
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    John Green
    “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska
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    John Green
    “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”
    ― John Green
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    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Albert Einstein
    “Nothing happens until something moves.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inertia, physics, universe
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    Mark Twain
    “The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
    tags: inertia, tradition
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: aspiration, inertia, motivation
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    “At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.”
    ― Frank Warren, A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book – The New York Times Bestseller of Anonymous Confessions and Profound Human Revelations
    tags: inertia, initiative
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, lover, person
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    Sarah Dessen
    “Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
    tags: home, life, together
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: decoration, friends, home, homemaking, house, visitors
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: inspirational, life-happiness
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: on-writing, reading, writing
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Death should take me while I am in the mood.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance
    tags: death, humor
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: writing
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
    tags: life, living
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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