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    William Shakespeare
    “Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,
    Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,
    It helps not, it prevails not.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: funny
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    Ovid
    “I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”
    ― Ovid, Metamorphoses
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.”
    ― Wodehouse
    tags: existentialism, humor, life, pondering
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  • #5
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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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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    Martin Amis
    “The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”
    ― Martin Amis
    tags: humor, inspirational, satire
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    Virginia Woolf
    “By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: feminism, inspirational
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    David Markson
    “Once, I had a dream of fame.
    Generally, even then, I was lonely.”
    ― David Markson , Wittgenstein’s Mistress
    tags: existence
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    Karl Popper
    “For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.”
    ― Karl Raimund Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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    Virginia Woolf
    “They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    William Shakespeare
    “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: cry, fools, newborn, stage
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: humility, self-improvement
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Leonard Woolf
    “One must be crucified on one’s own private cross.”
    ― Leonard Woolf
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Martin Amis
    “It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.”
    ― Martin Amis
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    Martin Amis
    “You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?”
    ― Martin Amis, London Fields
    tags: love
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    Albert Camus
    “I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Martin Amis
    “Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”
    ― Martin Amis, Money
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: philosophy, truth
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  • #35
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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  • #36
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Robert Crumb
    “All I can say is, it's a good thing we didn't win the revolution [laughter]. We would've ended up with people like Abie Hoffman and Eldridge Cleaver at the helm; we would've been in big trouble. Big trouble. It would've been such a Stalinist purge ... All those people that were the top names in those movements back then were all egotistical assholes, it turned out, every single one of them [laughter].”
    ― R. Crumb
    tags: 60s, hippies
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    Martin Amis
    “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
    ― Martin Amis, London Fields
    tags: age, aging, life, time
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  • #39
    “Goodness is not something that exists in the Universe and that’s why, when it happens, when someone comes up to you and they love you and care for you, you can say, "Fuck! That’s a big deal." If it was the natural order to love and care, as the hippies would have you believe, then what would there be to celebrate?"
    — Wayne Coyne, quoted in MOONDUST by Andrew Smith”
    ― Wayne Coyne
    tags: apollo-missions, love, moondust, wayne-coyne
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    Martin Amis
    “Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”
    ― Martin Amis, House of Meetings
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  • #41
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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  • #42
    Martin Amis
    “He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.”
    ― Martin Amis
    55 likes



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