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“You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You’ve seen more beaches than me. You’ve been to more cities than me. Your automobile is nicer than mine. Your significant other is better looking than mine. Your candidate won. Your home team won. You’re number one. But life is a tie. We all die.”
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“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.”
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“You know, I often tremble when it's apparent that I've accidentally confused a stupid person. Stupid people have been known to kill what they don't understand.”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“I must have seen the separation coming for weeks, but simply chose not to acknowledge it. However, there was no indifference. Just pure, fraught alienation. My idea is to live virtually unafraid. We're never told of forces equally unabashed. It's a concoction for thrills, sure, but it's also a formula for heartbreak. The kind of heartbreak that congeals around the flesh; slows a person down to the freezing point, and cheats them of the most significant civilities left in this world.”
― A Rocky Existence
― A Rocky Existence
“Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.”
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“Just be natural. Nature never denies a natural thing.”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We’re all made of the same star dust.”
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“I'm okay with being ignorant of ignorant ideas unless those ignorant ideas are chasing me down with pitchforks.”
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“Most people live in pursuit of their self-interest, forgetting that the self they serve today may not be the one they must live with tomorrow. We are so eager to satisfy our desires that we neglect the soul that must bear their consequences. In chasing what pleases us, we abandon what completes us. Self-interest is loud; best interest is quiet—and so few have the patience to listen.”
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“Do not despair if the best parts of your life are but a light in the cold, or warmth in the dark. What may seem insignificant is never without meaning. Even the faintest glow defies the void—and that very defiance is enough to carry us forward.”
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“The older we get, the more likely we are to replace boredom with exhaustion.”
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“Do not despair if the best parts of your life are but a light in the cold, or warmth in the dark. What may seem insignificant is not without meaning. Even the faintest glow defies the void—and that defiance is enough to carry us forward.”
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“The lines of society are so thinly drawn that totalitarianism seems due back from vacation at anytime now, and anarchy is always knocking on the door trying to sell us something we don’t need.”
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“Human beings are often so rattled by their own very existence and simplistic consciousness of the world that any act so far outside of their realm of possibility will either delight them into worship, or disgust them into burning you down completely — socially, psychically, and in rarer instances, physically.”
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“Ride time like a wave. Dance in non-Euclidean geometry. And never take a tree, a flower, or a tower for granted.”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“We're alive now. If none of this is real, there's hope we'll live forever. If this is reality, I can't complain.”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“Strong convictions often come with even stronger repercussions”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“It’s always bothered me how far people will go just to avoid silence. Gossip, drama, empty noise. Chasing status, praise—even worship. All to drown out the quiet. But what few realize is that the silence within us screams the loudest whenever we begin to live a life totally untrue to ourselves. Because in a world built on illusions, silence is the only thing that isn’t a lie.”
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“Outsider artists like Poe, Van Gogh, and Kafka had so much to say—yet no one to say it to. Their voices were soft, uncertain, lost in the noise of their own era. Only now are they truly heard—at last, and loud, and with a clarity that shakes the very ground beneath us. Not just posthumously, but long after their generations have vanished into dust. Their deaths were not only personal losses, but warnings—so stark and so human, they’ve placed the entire species on the endangered list.”
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“How do you weaken the control that certain powers have over you? Simple. Not by having all the right answers, but by asking the right questions. And question everything.”
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“There are no rights etched into the fabric of the universe—only permissions carved from the will of the few in power. What we call ‘human rights’ are often fleeting moments made fragile by the weight of a stronger, more potent force. This is the brutal calculus of the world: freedom exists only where strength allows it, and truth is often the wall we have to face. And it’s often the one that ultimately divides us.”
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“Never mourn the spirit of your past, but light a candle to spark ablaze the soul of your future, and who you’re going to be. And burn so brightly, and so deeply, that the person you see in the mirror can never defeat you.”
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“Live for today, but remain hung up on the past. That's the real hypocrisy. Collecting good memories to outweigh the bad, and live in them whenever necessary.”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“The greedy tend to pass up peaceful deaths”
― A Decent Machine
― A Decent Machine
“The world doesn't need more philosophers. It needs an army of servants who're willing to selflessly give their lives to a cause that is greater than their individual selves.”
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“MMost people live in pursuit of their self-interest, forgetting that the self they serve today may not be the one they must live with tomorrow. We are so eager to satisfy our desires that we neglect the soul that must bear their consequences. In chasing what pleases us, we abandon what completes us. Self-interest is loud; best interest is quiet—and so few have the patience to listen.”
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“There are no rights etched into the fabric of the universe—only permissions carved from the will of the few in power. What we call ‘human rights’ are often fleeting moments made fragile by the weight of a stronger, more potent force. This is the brutal calculus of the world: freedom exists only where strength allows it, and truth is often the wall we have to face, it’s often the one that ultimately divides us.”
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“You’re sick because you put comfort before duty. Safety, familiarity, and routine—they're illusions. True comfort is earned. It comes from hard work—the kind that lets you rest with pride, knowing you gave your best, did the right thing, and did it well. Now sit. Relax. You earned it.”
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“Truth without trust is but useless information”
― The Savage Romantics
― The Savage Romantics
“I always say, there is no such thing as a basic human right. The only rights you have are the ones the guys with the bullets allow you to have. That is the honest brutality of the world; and it’s the brutal honesty that’s hard to say and harder to hear.”
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