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    H.G. Wells
    “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
    tags: jealousy, morality
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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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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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar
    tags: pessimism, philosophy
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    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: activism, truth
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    Malcolm X
    “My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: books, reading
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    Saul Bellow
    “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
    ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
    tags: avoidance, ignorance, illusion, intelligence, self-deception
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    Terry Goodkind
    “Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.”
    ― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire
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    Malcolm X
    “We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Malcolm X
    “You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
    ― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Malcolm X
    “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    Noam Chomsky
    “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind
    tags: truth
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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
    “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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    Dan Simmons
    “To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
    tags: beauty, connection, happiness, inspiration, love, religion, sex
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    Dan Simmons
    “In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
    tags: history, literature, writing
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    John Keats
    “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not”
    ― John Keats
    tags: art, beauty, poetry
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
    ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
    tags: 1998
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    John Keats
    “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
    for their religion--
    I have shuddered at it,
    I shudder no more.
    I could be martyred for my religion.
    Love is my religion
    and I could die for that.
    I could die for you.
    My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice
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    René Daumal
    “I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.”
    ― Rene Daumal
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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar
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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
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    Donald Barthelme
    “The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
    ― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari
    tags: literature
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    Donald Barthelme
    “See the moon? It hates us.”
    ― Donald Barthelme
    tags: pessimism, philosophy
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    Sara Teasdale
    “In my heart's most secret place,
    I pity them as angels do.”
    ― Sara Teasdale
    tags: pessimism, philosophy
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    Lafcadio Hearn
    “The Shadow-maker shapes forever.”
    ― Lafcadio Hearn
    tags: mysticism, philosophy, religion
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  • #28
    “If the sum of living be love's fee,
    Tremble. You are my one eternity.”
    ― Laura Benet
    tags: devotion, emotion, love, philosophy
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    Marguerite Duras
    “Very early in my life it was too late.”
    ― Marguerite Duras, The Lover
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    René Daumal
    “This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.”
    ― Rene Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
    tags: insanity, madness, philosophy, surrealism
    152 likes



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