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    Reinhold Messner
    “Warum steigen Sie auf Berge Herr Messner?"
    "Weil sie da sind”
    ― Reinhold Messner Alpinist Abenteurer
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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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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
    14035 likes

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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
    11244 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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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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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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    “There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”
    ― Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    tags: martyrdom, misattributed-to-albert-camus, pacifism, principles, war
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: philosophy, truth
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    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
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    Albert Camus
    “Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
    ― Albert Camus
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    David Gray
    “Im Grunde unserer Seele sind wir Raubtiere. Intelligent, unersättlich und schnell. Alles, was wir in ein paar hunderttausend Jahren Entwicklung gegen unsere wahre Natur aufzubieten haben, ist bloß eine dünne Schicht aus Ritualen, die wir Zivilisation nennen.”
    ― David Gray, Wolfswechsel
    tags: existenzialismus, intelligenz, leben, mensch, philosophie, raubtier, zivilisation
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    David Gray
    “„Wer die Hölle übersteht, lässt sich auch vom Paradies nicht unterkriegen.”
    ― David Gray
    tags: angst, gott, hölle, leben, paradies
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    David Gray
    “Götter sind Voyeure, keine Bediensteten. Und was sie antreibt ist aller höchstens Neugier, nicht Mitgefühl.”
    ― David Gray
    tags: existenzialismus, gott, götter, leben, liebe, religion
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    David Gray
    “Wer mit dem Meer lebt, kennt die Kraft der Wellen und lernt früh, dass das Leben mehr Geschenk als Herausforderung bedeutet.”
    ― David Gray, Wolfswechsel
    tags: gott, leben, liebe, meer, philosophie
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    David Gray
    “Nicht immer brauchst du Zellen, Gitter oder Stacheldraht, um Menschen gefangen zu halten. Meistens tut es auch Angst.”
    ― David Gray, Wolfswechsel
    tags: angst, gefangenschaft, tod, zelle
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    David Gray
    “Masken sind eigensinnig. Trägst Du sie nur um einen Tick zu lange, wirst du sie nie wieder vollständig los. Etwas von ihnen bleibt an dir hängen.”
    ― David Gray, Wolfswechsel
    tags: angst, leben, liebe, masken, spiel, spionage, versteck
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    David Gray
    “Was wahre Sadisten ausmacht ist nicht Blutdurst, sondern Fantasie”
    ― David Gray, Little Red Riding Hood
    tags: angst, fatasie, leben, sadismus
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    David Gray
    “Liebe macht nicht blind. Es ist viel schlimmer - sie gaukelt Dir vor der einzig Sehende unter lauter Blinden zu sein.”
    ― David Gray, Wolfswechsel
    tags: angst, blindheit, leben, liebe, sehnsucht
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    David Gray
    “Wer mit den Haien schwimmt, der darf nicht bluten. Aber, mein Freund, Du blutest gerade. Und zwar heftig”
    ― David Gray, Der Preis
    tags: business, coaching-executive, leben, live, weisheit
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    David Gray
    “Was man über Angst erreichte, das wurde stets auch mit Angst bezahlt. Die Mächtigen fielen irgendwann genauso der Hybris der Macht zum Opfer, wie die Ohnmächtigen dem Zorn über ihre Machtlosigkeit.”
    ― David Gray, Der Preis
    tags: angst, coaching-executive, fear, live, wisdom
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    Angela Carter
    “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
    ― Angela Carter
    tags: books, reading
    1834 likes



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