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    Hermann Broch
    “Young man, until you know that all names are false you know nothing; not even the clothes on your body are what they seem to be.”
    ― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers
    tags: appearance, clothes, false, fraud, identity, names
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    Elfriede Jelinek
    “... was stört, ist die Zeit, die seit ihrer Geburt schon vergangen ist ! Besonders hier, wo es hell ist... Doch das Licht der Liebe ... ist auf sie gefallen, hat sie als ein im Fallen schon aufgeplatztes Sackerl Abfall auf den Boden geworfen.”
    ― Elfriede Jelinek, Lust
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Jedes Opfer bildet sich ein, ein im umgekehrten Sinne Auserwählter zu sein, ohne zu ahnen, daß es gerade dadurch den Status des Teufels erreicht.”
    ― E. M. Cioran
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, letters, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art
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    Franz Peter Schubert
    “No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.”
    ― Franz Schubert
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    “Zwischen scheinbar harmloser Ideologie und ihren radikalen Anwendungen lassen sich keine klaren Grenzen ziehen. Deshalb muss die Aufklärung an der Wurzel des Übels ansetzen. Es rächt sich, wenn man den Glauben an ... respektiert und zugleich hofft, dass niemand diesen Glauben missbrauchen oder radikal interpretieren wird”
    ― Hubert Schleichert, Wie man mit Fundamentalisten diskutiert, ohne den Verstand zu verlieren : Anleitung zum subversiven Denken
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
    tags: books, metaphor, soul
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    Emil M. Cioran
    “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
    ― Emil Cioran
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Marc Bloch
    “Let us guard against stripping our science of its share of poetry.”
    ― Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft
    tags: academia, history, writing, writing-history
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    Robert M. Sapolsky
    “We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.”
    ― Robert M. Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: development, dissipation, education, humility, knowledge, learning, progress, reading, thoreau
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Erich Fromm
    “Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
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    C.G. Jung
    “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: conscience, pride, psychology, self, superego
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    Gabrielle Zevin
    “She had, he thought, one of the world’s great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn’t feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.”
    ― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    tags: laughter
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    tags: action, inaction, perseverance, progress
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    “I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.”
    ― Terry Gilliam
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence?”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
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    Hannah Fry
    “Because the future doesn’t just happen. We create it.”
    ― Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow
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    Mark Twain
    “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
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    Henri Lefebvre
    “A magnificient life is waiting just around the corner, and far, far away. It is waiting like the cake is waiting when there's butter, milk, flour and sugar. This is the realm of freedom. It is an empty realm. Here man's maginificent power over nature has left him alone with himself, powerless. It is the boredom of youth without a future.”
    ― Henri Lefebvre
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