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    Ayn Rand
    “I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: death, die, fountainhead, life, live, mortality
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    Steven Pressfield
    “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”
    ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
    tags: art, work, writing
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    Steven Pressfield
    “If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
    ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
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    Ayn Rand
    “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: independence
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    Ayn Rand
    “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: self-acceptance, self-awareness
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    Ayn Rand
    “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: ideas, integrity, moral-courage
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    Ayn Rand
    “But I don't think of you.

    (Howard Roark)”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: john-galt
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    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: atlas, shrugged
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    Ayn Rand
    “I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
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    Brent Weeks
    “Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: nihilism, philosophy
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    Brent Weeks
    “What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
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    Brent Weeks
    “You will find no answers here, just choices.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: life
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
    tags: discipline, happiness, suffering
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    Julia Cameron
    “In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”
    ― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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    Walter Isaacson
    “If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
    tags: 1985, interview, playboy, steve-jobs
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    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Walter Isaacson
    “Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
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    Walter Isaacson
    “You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
    tags: apple, inspirational, mike-markkula, steve-jobs, walter-isaacson
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    Walter Isaacson
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
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    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
    ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
    tags: life, living
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    M.T. Anderson
    “We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.”
    ― M. T. Anderson, Feed
    tags: activism
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Brent Weeks
    “Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Black Prism
    tags: beauty, general-danavis, lightbringer-trilogy
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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Brent Weeks
    “We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
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