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“Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#3

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

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#4

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: life

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#5

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: identity

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#6

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: own, things

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#7

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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#8

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: dystopia

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#9

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: choice, life, man

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#10

“What's it going to be then, eh?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#11

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: freedom-of-choice, good-and-evil

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#12

“Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#13

“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: war

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#14

“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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#15

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science

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#16

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

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#17

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: club, fight

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#18

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#19

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animals, four, humans, legs, two

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#20

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war

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#21

“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: good-and-evil, human-nature

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#22

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: reading

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#23

“I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.”
― dylan moran

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#24

“Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?”
― Dylan Moran

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#25

“You know, just sometimes in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that 400th glass of cornershop piss at 3am--you do sometimes look at yourself and think--this is fantastic. I'm in heaven.”
― Dylan Moran

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#26

“He looks like a horse in a man costume!”
― Dylan Moran

tags: black-books, british, british-comedy, dylan-moran, funny, horse, man

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#27

“So It Goes”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#28

“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#29

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

tags: inspirational

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#30

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

tags: beliefs, doubt, faith

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