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    Tom Robbins
    “There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    tags: killing, life
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    Tom Robbins
    “Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
    Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.
    Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
    There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?
    Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.”
    ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
    tags: love, questions
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    Tom Robbins
    “Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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    Tom Robbins
    “You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well?

    It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: fact
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
    tags: not-alone
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  • #11
    “You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
    Love like you’ll never get hurt.
    You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.”
    ― Richard Leigh, Come from the Heart Sheet Music
    tags: susanna-clark
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: doubt, terrifying, vile
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: life, love
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: communication, confusion
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: secret
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    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
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    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: anais-nin, art
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    Don DeLillo
    “No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
    ― Don DeLillo, White Noise
    tags: death
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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  • #27
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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