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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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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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    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: atheism, dislikes, racism, religion, scepticism, stupidity, superstition
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: critical-thinking, independent-thought, opinions, skepticism, thinking
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “What do you most value in your friends?
    Their continued existence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: death, friends, friendship, life, proust-questionnaire, rushdie
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    B.F. Skinner
    “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
    ― B. F. Skinner
    tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
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    B.F. Skinner
    “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ”
    ― B.F. Skinner
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    B.F. Skinner
    “Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”
    ― B.F. Skinner
    tags: education, schools
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    Marina Keegan
    “What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
    tags: marina-keegan, possibility, the-opposite-of-loneliness
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    Marina Keegan
    “We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it's too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating from college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Marina Keegan
    “I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.”
    ― Marina Keegan
    tags: art, figure-out, inspirational
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    Marina Keegan
    “Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes...). We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
    We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time.”
    ― Marina Keegan
    tags: future-plans, inspirational, motivation, standards, young
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    Marina Keegan
    “We're our own hardest critics and it's easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating.”
    ― Marina Keegan
    tags: critics, motivation, procrastination
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    Marina Keegan
    “We’re our own hardest critics and it’s easy to let ourselves down. Sleeping too late. Procrastinating. Cutting corners. More than once I’ve looked back on my high school self and thought: how did I do that? How did I work so hard? Our private insecurities follow us and will always follow us.”
    ― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “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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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, originality
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: chance, happiness, risk
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
    Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
    This is all practice.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: hate, self-loathing
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