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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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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
    11719 likes

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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: cage, insanity
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    d.a. levy
    “If you want a revolution/grow a new mind/and do it quietly if you can”
    ― d.a. levy
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    Dalton Trumbo
    “When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.”
    ― Dalton Trumbo
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    d.a. levy
    “If you want a revolution
    return to your childhood
    and kick out the bottom.”
    ― D. A. Levy
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    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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    Albert Camus
    “Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Rebel
    tags: being, innocence, nostalgia, rebellion, revolt
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4082 likes

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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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    A.A. Milne
    “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
    ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
    tags: patience, perseverance
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    William Faulkner
    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
    ― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
    tags: freedom
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
    tags: independent-thought
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: self
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
    tags: narcissus-and-goldmund
    561 likes

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    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    ― Jim Morrison
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations
    tags: art, creativity, writing
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
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    E.E. Cummings
    “may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.”
    ― e.e. cummings
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    E.E. Cummings
    “Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: adoration, love, poetry
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: introspection, journey, self-discovery, within
    1103 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: rainer-maria-rilke
    546 likes

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    Andy Warhol
    “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
    ― Andy Warhol
    tags: nature
    400 likes

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    Nelson Mandela
    “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship
    2066 likes



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