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#1

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

#3

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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#3

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#4

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender-wiggin, identity, pain

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#5

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

tags: animals, love, pets

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#6

“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

tags: damn, ideals, live, peaceful, people, real, way

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#7

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

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#8

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: writing

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#9

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, life

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#10

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding

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#11

“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: childhood, introduction, orson-scott-card, personhood

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#12

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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#13

“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: happiness, humanity, mazer-rackham

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#14

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

tags: ender, freedom, necessity, service

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#15

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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#16

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#17

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: inspirational, simplicity

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#18

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: philosophy

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