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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
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however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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