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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Thomas Harris
    “Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising
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    Victor Pelevin
    “I and this entire world are nothing but a thought someone is thinking,” the bear said in a quiet voice.”
    ― Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra
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    Leonora Carrington
    “There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself.”
    ― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
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    Stanisław Lem
    “We’re not searching for anything except people. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”
    ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
    tags: science-fiction
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
    tags: feminism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
    tags: diaries, importance, omissions, truth
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
    tags: belief, hell, paraphrased, perception
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Love...no such thing.

    Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

    Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: love
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
    From time to time my heart is like some oak
    Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works
    tags: dreams
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: pp-11
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
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    Leonora Carrington
    “Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?

    Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.”
    ― Leonora Carrington, The Seventh Horse and Other Tales
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    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
    tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."

    [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]”
    ― David Foster Wallace
    tags: american-psycho, darkness, fiction, human, humanity, mankind, on-fiction, perspective, worldview
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    David Foster Wallace
    “What TV is extremely good at—and realize that this is "all it does"—is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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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
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: happiness, lasting, pleasure, temporary
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  • #28
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: love
    803 likes



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