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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, comfort, completion, fulfillment, home, irrevocability, permanence, philosophy, psychology, safety, security, state-of-mind

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#4

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
― James Baldwin

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“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
― James Baldwin

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#6

“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
― James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

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#7

“If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.”
― James Baldwin

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#8

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
― James Baldwin

tags: freedom, liberty

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#9

“You become what you think about all day long.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, obsession

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#10

“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: integrity, self-actualization, self-determination

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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing

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#14

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
― Woody Allen

tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty

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#15

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#16

“In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

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“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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#18

“Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#19

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, rebel

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#20

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
― Nietzsche

tags: convictions, existentialism, lies, truth

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#21

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: existentialism, student, teacher

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#22

“I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.”
― Albert Camus

tags: albert-camus, existentialism, philosophy, the-fall

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#23

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: paraphrased

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#24

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

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#26

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

tags: love

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#27

“Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed”
― Nayyirah Waheed

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#28

“Even if you are a small forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

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#29

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

tags: depression, sadness, suicide

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#30

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, sadness

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