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“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#2

“Deserve your dream.”
― octavio paz

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#3

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: life

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#4

“Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.”
― Octavio Paz , The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

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#5

“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”
― Nicanor Parra , Artefactos

tags: america, freedom, liberty

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#6

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

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#7

“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”
― Meister Eckhart

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#8

“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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#9

“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: censorship, language, speech, truth, writing

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#10

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: beauty, inspirational

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#11

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: confusion, monsters, order, pets, tame, wild

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#12

“Having a mentally ill parent meant simultaneously wrestling with a hard relationship while mourning the absence of the one you actually wanted.”
― Liz Scheier, Never Simple

tags: children-of-the-mentally-ill, dysfunctional-families, mental-illness

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#13

“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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#14

“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
― Jessica Mitford

tags: muck-raking, social-action, writing

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#15

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance

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#16

“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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#17

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
― Wendell Berry, Given

tags: desecrated, sacred

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#18

“When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of sunshine that tree basked in over its lifetime.”
― Peter Brannen, The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

tags: past, sunshine, trees

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#19

“Bernal Díaz del Castillo había sentenciado el destino de nuestro país [España, pero en realidad el mundo]: matarás y matarte han y matarán a quien te matare.”
― Carlos Rojas, El Valle de los Caídos

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#20

“Globally, about 145 million people live three feet or less above the current sea level. As the waters rise, millions of these people will be displaced, many of them in poor countries, creating generations of climate refugees that will make today’s Syrian war refugee crisis look like a high school drama production.”
― Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

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#21

“This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.
For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”
― Carlo Rovelli, L'ordine del tempo

tags: absence, affection, love, sorrow, time

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#22

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: life, self-actualization, self-image

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#23

“My aim is not to give you knowledge. My aim is to help you break free from your views.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

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#24

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

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#25

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

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#26

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

tags: from-ulysses

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#27

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland

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#28

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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#29

“As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there’s too much noise in my world.”
― Can Xue

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#30

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

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