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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

tags: philosophy

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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

tags: philosophy

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“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

tags: death, haiku, james-bond, philosophy, poetry

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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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