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“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”
― Edvard Munch

tags: abyss, danger, fear, jump, life, poem, poetry, trouble

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“Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

tags: inspirational

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“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, big-words, bombast, bombastic, child, children, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, grownup, grownups, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, intelligence, intelligent, irritate, irritated, irritating, kid, kids, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, offspring, parent, parents, philosopher, pompous, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, show-off, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unintelligent

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“I don’t feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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