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    Ovid
    “Bene vixit, bene qui latuit."

    (To live well is to live concealed.)”
    ― Ovid, The Tristia of Ovid
    tags: life, peace, privacy, secrecy
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

    Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism
    814 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
    2337 likes

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    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
    tags: books, literature, reading
    3536 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
    1047 likes

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    Emil M. Cioran
    “A book is a suicide postponed.”
    ― Cioran
    tags: suicide, writing
    973 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    8990 likes

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    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, enterprise, talent, work
    434 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
    tags: ambition
    344 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “We must be our own before we can be another's.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “That's the horror of it for me, that I understand everything!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: penguin-classics, the-meek-one
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
    1059 likes

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    William Gibson
    “We see in order to move; we move in order to see.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: clarity, movement, nomadism
    111 likes

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    Jim Morrison
    “You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: strength
    791 likes

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    Alan Moore
    “I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”
    ― Alan Moore, From Hell
    50 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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    Alan Moore
    “Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart...
    ...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.”
    ― Alan Moore, From Hell
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Love...no such thing.

    Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

    Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: love
    376 likes

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    Inio Asano
    “Happiness" describes moments, and it's never permanent.”
    ― Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
    tags: happiness
    58 likes

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    Marcel Proust
    “Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”
    ― H. P. Lovecraft, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
    tags: horror, life, ordinary
    165 likes

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    Takehiko Inoue
    “There is no light for those who do not know darkness.”
    ― Takehiko Inoue
    93 likes

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    Yu Hua
    “We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.”
    ― Yu Hua, 十個詞彙裡的中國
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    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    ― Stéphane Mallarmé
    tags: books, reading
    2195 likes

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    Yu Hua
    “Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams.”
    ― Yu Hua, 十個詞彙裡的中國
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    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    4544 likes

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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: j-r-angelella, soho-press, zombie
    91 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: poetry
    1321 likes

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    Laurence Sterne
    “Human nature is the same in all professions.”
    ― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    tags: human-nature
    46 likes



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