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“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception

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#3

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#4

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humour, men, slavery, slaves

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#5

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art

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#6

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#7

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

tags: courage, life

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#8

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

tags: growth, life, maturity

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#9

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: contenment, life

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#10

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#11

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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#12

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: goals, journey, travel

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#13

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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#14

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

tags: power, sex

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#15

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen

tags: hedonism, humor, sex

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#16

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: nationalism, patriotism, war

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#17

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

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#18

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#19

“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: philosophy

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#20

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: buddism, kindness, religion

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#21

“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion

tags: belief, evil, psychoanalysis, religion

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#22

“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.”
― Erich Fromm

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#23

“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”
― Philip Roth, The Human Stain

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#24

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience

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#25

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
― John Maynard Keynes

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#26

“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
― John Maynard Keynes

tags: politics

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#26

“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”
― John Maynard Keynes

tags: right, wrong

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#27

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#28

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: temptation

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#29

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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