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#1

“Asta n-o vor înțelege ei niciodată: că nu ești dator să ajungi ceva, că nu trebuie să parvii nicăieri, că ceea ce importă în primul rând este să fii tu și să poți rămâne tu însuți în orice împrejurare a vieții.”
― Mircea Eliade, Întoarcerea din rai

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#2

“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”
― Eric Weiner

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#3

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#4

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#5

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#6

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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#7

“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity; to all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing”
― Marcel Duchamp

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#8

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: identity, originality

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#9

“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
― Unknown - attributed to Mark Twain by Normand Baillargeon

tags: paradox

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#10

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

tags: failure, passion

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#11

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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#12

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

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#13

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”
― Jack Kerouac

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#14

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion

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#15

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

tags: aggression, analogy, disapproval, motto, pacifism, paradox, war

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#16

“Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#17

“everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: relativity, sirens-of-titan, space, time

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#18

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#19

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: human-nature, people, truth

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