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    Stevan V. Nikolic
    “Freemasonry is relevant as much as the actions of Freemasons are meaningful.”
    ― Stevan V. Nikolic, On the Square - Decoding Freemasonry
    tags: brotherhood, freemasonry, secret
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    Knut Hamsun
    “The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came.”
    ― Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    Mark Twain
    “The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    William Shakespeare
    “Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. ”
    ― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: books, morality, reading, writing
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    Aleister Crowley
    “Every man and every woman is a star.”
    ― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions
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    “Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.”
    ― Tom Cowan, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit – A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Visionary Experience
    tags: enlightenment, magic, mysticism, otherworld, shamanism
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: inspirational
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
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    Boethius
    “Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
    ― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
    tags: inspiration, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    ― Roald Dahl, The Twits
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    Pierre de Ronsard
    “Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,
    Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie,
    Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point de loi

    Translated: Breath against breath warms my life.
    A thousand kisses give me I pray thee.
    Love says it all without number,
    love knows no law.”
    ― Pierre de Ronsard
    tags: french, love, poetry
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    René Descartes
    “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: doubt, truth
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    “I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.”
    ― Luis Barragan
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
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