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Shunryu Suzuki
“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Oscar Wilde
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

Tristan Tzara
“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”
Tristan Tzara

David Foster Wallace
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Jean-Paul Sartre
“A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

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