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Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
― José Saramago, The Double

tags: double, order, perception

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“The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

tags: pessimism, philosophy, schopenhauer

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