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    E.E. Cummings
    “i do not know what it is about you that closes
    and opens;only something in me understands
    the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: love, poetry
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman
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    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    ― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: inspirational
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: cynicism
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
    tags: distance, time
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    Tennessee Williams
    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
    tags: burning, fire, house, trapped, windows
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    Tennessee Williams
    “A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.”
    ― Tennessee Williams
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: beatitudes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
    ― Nietzsche, Friedrich
    tags: love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Albert Einstein
    “I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...

    to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: education, free-thought, philosophy
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, regret
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: paradox
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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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    Herman Melville
    “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale
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