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#1

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

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#2

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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#3

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

10868 likes

#4

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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#5

“Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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#6

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20110 likes

#7

“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

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#8

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#9

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: humor, humour, mankind, misanthropy

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#10

“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#11

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: opportunity

2250 likes

#12

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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#13

“I am the wound and the blade, the torturer and the flayed.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

tags: blade, torturer, wound

54 likes

#14

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

tags: suicide

1465 likes

#15

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

tags: suicide, writing

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#16

“With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”
― Aristotle, Poetics

tags: art, possibilities, probabilities

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#17

“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
― Leon Trotsky

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#18

“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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#19

“We have reached a veredict, your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.”
― Tony Kushner, Millennium Approaches

tags: aids, aids-epidemic, heartbreak, love, prior

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#20

“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

tags: love

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#21

“There is no greater suffering than that of a parent who is unable to save their own child who wants to die.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

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#22

“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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#23

“You can’t get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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#24

“Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.”
― Sun-sin Yi

tags: admiral, korea, myeongnyang, yi-sun-shin, 이순신

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#25

“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
― Antonio Gramsci

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#26

“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
― Robert Brault

tags: disguise, life, search, soulmates

328 likes

#27

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

1086 likes

#28

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

tags: fantasy, love, monster

1068 likes

#29

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

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#30

“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, philosophy

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