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Mansoor Ali

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“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational

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“To live is to risk it all. Otherwise, you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you.”
― Rick Sanchez

tags: humor

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“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”
― Charles Horton Cooley

tags: socialization, sociology

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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

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