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  • #1
    “Character, like film, develops in darkness.”
    ― Yousuf Karsh
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    William Faulkner
    “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
    ― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
    tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow
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    C.G. Jung
    “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
    ― Carl Jung
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  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Frans de Waal
    “Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.”
    ― Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    ― Nikolai V. Gogol
    tags: humor, sadness
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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  • #11
    “To do two things at once is to do neither.”
    ― Publilius Syrus
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  • #12
    Temple Grandin
    “What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?

    You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.”
    ― Temple Grandin, The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
    tags: aspergers, autism
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  • #13
    Du Fu
    “Shine: clear dew aching with light.”
    ― Tu Fu
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    Carl Sagan
    “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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    William S. Burroughs
    “You know a real friend?
    Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals
    tags: cats, friends, friendship
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    William Faulkner
    “Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.”
    ― William Faulkner
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
    tags: depression, humor, melancholy, wit
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Nikola Tesla
    “I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: inventions, marriage, nikola-tesla, passion
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  • #21
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: astronomy, cosmos, painting, photography, science, space, starry-night, universe, vincent-van-gogh
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    Carl Sagan
    “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: cosmos, science, thought-provoking
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  • #23
    Rachel Carson
    “Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.”
    ― Rachel Carson
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    Brassaï
    “Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.”
    ― Brassai
    tags: night
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
    ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
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    Ansel Adams
    “To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: landscape, landscapes, photography
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    J. Michael Straczynski
    “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
    ― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2
    tags: self-awareness, suicide, vanity
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet: A Television Script. Adapted by Michael Benthall and Ralph Nelson for presentation on the CBS Television Network by the Old Vic Company on February 24, 1959 at 9:30 EST.
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    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: strength
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    Federico Fellini
    “Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.”
    ― Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita: Federico Fellini's Masterpiece
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