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    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
    tags: existentialism
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: existentialism, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
    tags: existence, existentialism, maturity, youth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
    ― Nietzsche
    tags: convictions, existentialism, lies, truth
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    Albert Camus
    “If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
    tags: existentialism, nihilism, philosphy
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  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: death, fear, humor, life
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Richard Dawkins
    “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination
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    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: existentialism, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Anton Chekhov
    “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions
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    Ernest Becker
    “Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: existentialism, meaning
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
    tags: existentialism, judgement
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    Jean-Luc Godard
    “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
    ― Jean-Luc Godard
    tags: courage, existentialism, godard, inspirational
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    Ernest Becker
    “We are gods with anuses.”
    ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
    tags: existentialism, human-condition, humor, philosofy, psychology, religion
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    John Fowles
    “I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”
    ― John Fowles, The Collector
    tags: beyond, insect, nihilism, nihilistic
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    Arthur Balfour
    “Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.”
    ― Arthur Balfour
    tags: nihilism, prime-minister
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Life begins on the other side of despair.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: inspirational
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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