Michael Rupert

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Michael’s Notes & Highlights

Candide by Voltaire

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“All this was indispensable,” replied the one-eyed doctor, “for private misfortunes make the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are the greater is the general good.”

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Michael’s Quotes

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind

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“Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.”
― Haruki Murakami

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“All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions"

"That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life

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