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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

by Arthur Edward Waite

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“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory

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“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

tags: art, beauty, language, nature

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: death, fear, inspirational

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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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