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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: secrets, superstition, the-judge
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy
    tags: humor, life
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy
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    J.D. Salinger
    “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: fuck-you, holden, humor, signs
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    Mark Twain
    “There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
    shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
    know ain't so'.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: faith, humor, wit
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    Mark Twain
    “Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education, food
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    Mark Twain
    “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Ayn Rand
    “A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Ayn Rand
    “The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Ayn Rand
    “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: evil, right, wrong
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    Ayn Rand
    “A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: life, philosophy
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    Ayn Rand
    “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Ayn Rand
    “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Alan W. Watts
    “The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Hermann Hesse
    “In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
    tags: discordian, discordianism, eternity, humor, joke
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    Hermann Hesse
    “No permanence is ours; we are a wave
    That flows to fit whatever form it finds”
    ― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
    tags: permanence, transience
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    Hermann Hesse
    “When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: insanity, sanity
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    Hermann Hesse
    “The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
    tags: love
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
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    Hermann Hesse
    “One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: self, wisdom
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
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    C.G. Jung
    “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
    tags: solitude
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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