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    Haruki Murakami
    “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
    tags: death, life
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft
    tags: books, library, literature, reading, words
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Never Explain Anything”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: life
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu: With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen
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    Alan W. Watts
    “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
    ― Slavoj Zizek
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
    tags: freedom, language
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
    2204 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
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    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: healing, vulnerability
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: nagasawa
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: dreaming, dreams
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson
    tags: beyond-good-and-evil
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson
    tags: individualism, psichology
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future.”
    ― Jordan Peterson
    tags: gwujhnpmuyu-t-39m30s, youtube
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects. And you can say "Well it's only symbolic that women are nature", it's like no, it's not just symbolic. The woman is the gatekeeper to reproductive success. And you can't get more like nature than that, in fact it's the very definition of nature.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “No tree can grow to Heaven,” adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, “unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Jordan B. Peterson
    “To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”
    ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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    Alan W. Watts
    “This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: life, play, work
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: process, time
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: faith, freedom, trust
    1041 likes



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