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    Henry Miller
    “Well, I'll take these pages and move on. Things are happening elsewhere. Things are always happening. It seems wherever I go there is drama. People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.”
    ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you, and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%.” This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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    Arundhati Roy
    “I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”
    ― Arundhati Roy
    tags: loner
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    Albert Einstein
    “Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, einstein, inspirational, loner
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You get so alone at times that it just makes sense.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: loner, realizations
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding
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  • #7
    “There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
    ― Bjork
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  • #8
    “I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.”
    ― Noomi Rapace
    tags: cracks, dark-side, personality
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    Jonathan Friesen
    “How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.”
    ― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
    tags: clara, cracks, elias, fall, falling, free, promise, trap, world
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    Albert Einstein
    “Information is not knowledge.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: information, knowledge
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    Roman Payne
    “She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
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    Criss Jami
    “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: achieve, achievement, achieving, ambition, goals, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspiring, life, lifestyle, living, meaning, motivate, motivating, motivation, motivational, purpose, purpose-in-life, reason, reason-to-breathe, reason-to-live, sacrifice, success, successful-living
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    Jarod Kintz
    “Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    Criss Jami
    “Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
    ― Criss Jami
    tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true
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    Stephen King
    “We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
    ― Stephen King, 11/22/63
    tags: influence, life, teaching
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
    Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: love, poetry, space, trust
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    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism
    tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment
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    Jarod Kintz
    “He was an introverted kid, so I didn’t send him to his room as punishment. No, I took him to a party.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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    Constantin Stanislavski
    “Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
    ― Constantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art
    tags: art, inspirational, theatre
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: theatre
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    H.G. Wells
    “We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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    J.D. Salinger
    “You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
    tags: duality, meditation, philosophy, teddy
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    C.G. Jung
    “But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.”
    ― C.G. Jung, The Essential Jung: Selected Writings
    tags: conscious, duality, energy, mind, opposites, polarity, psychology, unconscious
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
    tags: love, mania
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    John Keats
    “Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
    ― John Keats
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  • #29
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: identity, reality
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    Frédéric Chopin
    “Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”
    ― Frédéric Chopin
    tags: chopin, music
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
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