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    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    ― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies
    tags: misattributed-george-santayana
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    Henry Miller
    “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Anthony Burgess
    “It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: evil, good, humanity, humans
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my lids and all is born again.
    (I think I made you up inside my head.)”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    William Faulkner
    “I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. ”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: funny, harsh, ironic
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  • #10
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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  • #11
    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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  • #12
    Walter Benjamin
    “The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
    ― Walter Benjamin
    tags: hope, love
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
    tags: artist, creative, inspirational
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: god, humor, money
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    Laurence Sterne
    “To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.”
    ― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    tags: books, inspiration, writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    John Kennedy Toole
    “I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
    ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
    tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Ken Kesey
    “But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
    ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    tags: fictional-truth, on-fiction
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
    tags: civilization, inequality, philosophy, progress, war
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris
    tags: solaris
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
    tags: art, existence, faith, hope
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
    tags: art, humanity
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  • #28
    Émile Zola
    “Respectable people... What bastards!”
    ― Émile Zola, The Belly of Paris
    tags: respectability
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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  • #30
    Adolf Hitler
    “Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
    ― Adolf Hitler
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