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    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: repression, strength
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    Albert Camus
    “And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: hope
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    José Saramago
    “Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
    ― Jose Saramago
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    Vincent Lowry
    “Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.”
    ― Vincent Lowry
    tags: 2012, dreams, paycheck, quote, vincent-lowry
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    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
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    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    ― Lemony Snicket
    tags: humor-wicked-reading
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini
    tags: life
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: meaning-of-life
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill
    tags: optimism
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
    tags: fearlessness, honesty, speaking-your-mind
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    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    ― Bill Nye
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    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
    2596 likes

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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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    Saul Bellow
    “The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet
    tags: mortality, perspective
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
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    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
    tags: books, power
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
    1227 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    1109 likes



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