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#1

“Motto"

In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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#2

“When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement. ”
― Max Ernst

tags: art, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-reflection

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#4

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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#5

“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.”
― Italo Calvino

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#6

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
― Colette

tags: creative-process, editing, self-criticism, writing

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#7

“After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

tags: drinking, matches, poetry, vodka, writing

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#8

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#9

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#10

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#11

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

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#12

“I don't know where you'd find such a magazine." ~ on the stipulations set by a benefactor to the Harvard Advocate that the staff contain no Jews, homosexuals, or drunks”
― Kenneth Koch

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#13

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex

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#14

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#15

“It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

tags: philosophy

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#16

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

tags: philosophy, taoism

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#17

“I am my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy, solipsism

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#18

“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: heraclitus, philosophy, sleep, wisdom

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#19

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

tags: errors, philosophy, religion

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#20

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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#21

“The map is not the territory.”
― Alfred Korzybski

tags: cybernetics, metaphysics, philosophy

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#22

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

tags: humanity, truth, wisdom

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#23

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity

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#24

“No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear”
― Solon

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#25

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

tags: politics

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#26

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: liberty, political-philosophy, politics

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#27

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#28

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”
― John Ruskin

tags: introspection, psychology, self-importance, self-involvement

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#29

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#30

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading

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#31

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, sex

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