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#1

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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#2

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

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#3

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

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#4

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

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#5

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

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#6

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdism

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#7

“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: philosophical

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#8

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#9

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#10

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

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#11

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

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#12

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts

tags: life, play, work

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#13

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
― Alan Watts

tags: flickr

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#14

“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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#15

“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”
― Alan Watts

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#16

“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

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#17

“Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: alchochol, self, self-conciousness, suffering

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#18

“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. ”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Essential Alan Watts

tags: medicine

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#19

“When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
― Alan Watts

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#20

“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: paradox, philosophy, power-of-words

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#21

“You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

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#22

“a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

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#23

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk

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