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    Vincent van Gogh
    “To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: poetry, prose, writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: cleverness, mistakes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
    tags: conscience, herd-mentality, peer-pressure, reputation
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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    “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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    Luigi Pirandello
    “I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.”
    ― Luigi Pirandello
    tags: relationships
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: literature, philosophy, style, truth, writing
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    Gertrude Stein
    “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: activism, beatles, materialism, peace, society, television
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    James Salter
    “Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”
    ― James Salter, Burning the Days: Recollection
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    T.S. Eliot
    “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood
    tags: imitation, influence, inspiration
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
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    Alain de Botton
    “What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”
    ― Alain de Botton
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    ― oscar wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Deepak Chopra
    “If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: doubt, intelligent, problems, smart, stupid, world
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    James Joyce
    “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo”
    ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    tags: first-lines
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    Saul Bellow
    “Anyone who wants to govern the country, has to entertain it.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Ravelstein
    tags: politics, trump, truth
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Henry Miller
    “(P)assages of those books I once wrote in my head came back, like the curled edges of a dream which refuse to flatten out. They would always be flapping there, those curled edges... flapping from the cornices of those dingy shit-brown shanties, those slat-faced saloons, those foul rescue and shelter places where the bleary-eyed, codfish-faced bums hung about like lazy flies, and O God, how miserable they looked, how wasted, how blenched, how withered and hollowed out!”
    ― Henry Miller, Nexus
    tags: description, henry-miller, life, power, prose, words, writing
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