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#1

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

#2

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#3

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#4

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#5

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

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#6

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#7

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

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#8

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

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#9

“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

tags: to-love

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#10

“Mature love is loving, not being loved.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

tags: love

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#11

“To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

tags: love

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#12

“Death and life are interdependent: though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death saves us.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

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#13

“هیچ انسانی نیست که همیشه کامیاب شود و همیشه بیافریند، هیچ انسانی نیست که مدام در تلاش‌هایش موفق باشد، ولی حرکت در مسیر درست حتی اگر به کامیابی منجر نشود، شاید معنای زندگی و تنها پاسخ اگزیستانسیال ممکن باشد.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

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#14

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Martin Heidegger

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#15

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
― Martin Heidegger

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#16

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. ”
― Martin Heidegger

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#17

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. ”
― Martin Heidegger

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#18

“The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.”
― Martin Heidegger

tags: nietzche, originality

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#19

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

tags: inspirational

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#20

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: death, life

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#21

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#22

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#23

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#24

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

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#25

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#26

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: authors, good-books, truth, writers

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#27

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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#28

“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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#29

“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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#30

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression

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