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    Georges Bataille
    “Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
    ― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
    tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard
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    Lewis Hyde
    “Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
    ― Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
    tags: irony
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: living
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Georges Bataille
    “We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.”
    ― Georges Bataille
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    Bertrand Russell
    “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: life, love
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    John Wayne
    “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
    ― John Wayne
    tags: bravery, courage
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    Woody Allen
    “Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    George Orwell
    “I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: orwell, political-satire, quthoritarianism, russian-revolution
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    H.L. Mencken
    “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series
    tags: diplomacy, love, outrage
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
    ― Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
    tags: happiness, love
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Bertrand Russell
    “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Georges Bataille
    “The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
    ― Georges Bataille
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
    tags: brevity, darkness, death, life, light, reality
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    Charles Manson
    “I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards”
    ― Charles Manson
    tags: crime, greed
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: disadvantage, internal, parasites
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Woody Allen
    “The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Woody Allen
    “Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    Woody Allen
    “I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: indifference, misanthrope, social-anxiety
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    Woody Allen
    “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: hedonism, humor, sex
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    Woody Allen
    “Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: funny, love, sex
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    Woody Allen
    “I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty
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    Woody Allen
    “If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: inspirational-quotes
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