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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

    Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And I fell violently on my face.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Great Tales and Poems
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    W.B. Yeats
    “There is another world, but it is in this one.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: misattributed
    471 likes

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    Leonard Cohen
    “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “You go your way
    I'll go your way too”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
    ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    tags: life-memories
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    tags: hell, love, suffering
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  • #12
    “People are mysterious, even to themselves.”
    ― Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni: A Novel
    tags: film, mystery
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    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “In this treacherous world
    Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
    Everything depends on the color
    Of the crystal through which one sees it”
    ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    tags: absolutes, evil, good, lies, perception, truth
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
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    Noël Coward
    “Work is more fun than fun.”
    ― Noel Coward
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    Frederick Seidel
    “July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly.
    It is beautiful that they have to disappear.
    It's like the time you said I love you madly.
    That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year.”
    ― Frederick Seidel
    tags: fireworks, love, poetry
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