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#1

“Other people’s understanding of us is made up of so many complex misunderstandings.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

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#2

“It’s hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#4

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse”
― Epictetus

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#4

“When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

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#5

“To plan a book — or an escape — the first thing to know is what to exclude.”
― Italo Calvino, t zero

tags: book-writing, books, writers, writers-on-writing, writing

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#6

“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#7

“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#8

“But here was a woman taken without her own consent from the free world to an asylum and there given no chance to prove her sanity. Confined most probably for life behind asylum bars, without even being told in her language the why and wherefore. Compare this with a criminal, who is given every chance to prove his innocence. Who would not rather be a murderer and take the chance for life than be declared insane, without hope of escape?”
― Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House

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#9

“If there is nothing that needs correcting in the world memory, the only thing left to do is to correct reality where it doesn't agree with that memory.”
― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

tags: changing-the-past, false-memories, false-reality, memory, propaganda, reality

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#10

“Praise to be the stars that implode. A new freedom opens up within them: annulled from space, exonerated from time, existing at last, for themselves alone and no longer in relation to all the rest, perhaps only they can be sure they really exist.”
― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

tags: astrology, existence, existentialism, freedom, stars

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#11

“It's the first thing people notice,' she says despondently. 'Difference. As if it's a crime.”
― Pajtim Statovci, Tiranan sydän

tags: differences, identity, uniqueness

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#12

“Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

tags: ecology, environmental-protection, environmental-values, nature-conservation, trees

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#13

“It is a happiness to wonder;—it is a happiness to dream”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Morella

tags: dream, gothic, happiness, life-meaning, poetry, wonder

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#14

“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#15

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#16

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: existence, existential, fate

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#17

“If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!”
― Milan Kundera

tags: creator, es-muss-sein, excitement, freedom, god, love, milan-kundera, unbearable-lightness-of-being

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#18

“People have an amazing ability to cope with the madness of life. It's called denial. It'll take you a good mile, but only if life's horrors stay on the page of the newspaper where they belong.”
― Darwyn Cooke, Before Watchmen: Minutemen/Silk Spectre

tags: coping, coping-mechanisms, denial, madness

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#19

“Everything’s streamlined nowadays, even the bullet Hitler’s keeping for you.”
― George Orwell, Coming up for Air

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#20

“What mattered was to humble himself, to organize his heart to match the rhythm of the days instead of submitting their rhythm to the curve of human hopes.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#21

“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: pleasure, vice

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#22

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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#23

“Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt.”
― Theodore Twombly "Her" film

tags: feelings-of-love, love

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