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    Karl Marx
    “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

    [These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
    ― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
    tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle
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    Pyotr Kropotkin
    “Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.”
    ― Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Morality
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”
    ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems
    tags: bittersweet, life, songs
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    China Miéville
    “Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
    ― China Miéville, The City & the City
    tags: books, ideas, stories
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    W.B. Yeats
    “I have spread my dreams under your feet.
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: education, lifelong-learning
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    W.B. Yeats
    “There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    David Harvey
    “Neoliberalization has meant ,in short,the financialization of everything.There was unquestionably a power shift away from production to the world of finance.”
    ― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Terry Eagleton
    “A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
    ― Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction
    tags: ideology, politics, socialism
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    Terry Eagleton
    “Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
    ― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
    tags: communism, equality, marxism, social-justice, socialism
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    Wallace Stevens
    “Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
    ― Wallace Stevens
    tags: beauty
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Errico Malatesta
    “We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.”
    ― Errico Malatesta
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    Emma Goldman
    “If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchy, music, revolution
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    Renzo Novatore
    “Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.”
    ― Renzo Novatore
    tags: anarchism, egoism, nihilism
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    Samuel Beckett
    “All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
    tags: failure, perseverance
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    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: poetry
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Harold Bloom
    “Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
    ― Harold Bloom
    tags: books, literature, reading, solitude, words
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: art, beauty, music, wonder
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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Mark Twain
    “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #30
    Honoré de Balzac
    “If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
    tags: youth
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