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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    “To the country dug into our lives like a grave,
    to the country etherized, and killed,
    a sun rises from our paralyzed history
    into our millennial sleep”
    ― Ali Ahmad Said Asbar Adunis
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    Elizabeth George
    “There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
    ― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph
    tags: life-questions
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
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    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
    ― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings
    tags: future, past
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    Milan Kundera
    “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: heart, mind
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    Milan Kundera
    “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep
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    Milan Kundera
    “The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Ignorance
    tags: memory, nostalgia, vocabulary
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    Milan Kundera
    “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
    Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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    Milan Kundera
    “To laugh is to live profoundly.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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    Milan Kundera
    “A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
    tags: ignorance, man, men, resonsibility, willful-ignorance
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    Milan Kundera
    “Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere
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    Milan Kundera
    “Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
    tags: women
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    Milan Kundera
    “I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Immortality
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    Sebastian Junger
    “Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
    ― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Milan Kundera
    “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
    ― Milan Kundera
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
    2799 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    Carl Sagan
    “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
    ― Carl Sagan
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    Carl Sagan
    “If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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    Carl Sagan
    “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: destruction, inspirational, truth
    356 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    197 likes



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