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    Noah Levine
    “Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.”
    ― noah levine
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    Noah Levine
    “Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”
    ― Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
    tags: buddhism, meditation, philosophy, religion
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    Noah Levine
    “The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.”
    ― Noah Levine, Dharma Punx: A Memoir
    tags: music, philosophy, politics
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    Noah Levine
    “...I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.”
    ― Noah Levine, Dharma Punx: A Memoir
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
    tags: cruelty, gods, hubris, humanity
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison.
    Fine. I don't you like you, either.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
    tags: anger, betrayal, hate, love
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “There is nothing foolish about hope.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
    tags: faith, hope
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    N.K. Jemisin
    “I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore.
    I must try to remember.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor-heaven
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: saint-sinner
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    ― Neil Gaiman
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: inspirational
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
    The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
    "Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
    "Fuck you," said the raven.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: edgar-allan-poe, humor, nevermore, parody, poe, raven
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    Neil Gaiman
    “All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Even nothing cannot last forever.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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