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#1

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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#2

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

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#4

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato

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#6

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

1469 likes

#7

“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#7

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#9

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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#10

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality

1651 likes

#11

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7194 likes

#12

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#13

“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#14

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: conscious, rebel

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#16

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984, big-brother, george, george-orwell, government, orwell

463 likes

#17

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#17

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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#18

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

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#19

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: reality

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#19

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#19

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

3041 likes

#20

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16235 likes

#20

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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#20

“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: bravery, fear

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#21

“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
― Aeschylus

tags: brutal-comforting

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#22

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
― Aeschylus

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#22

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: death, life

2588 likes

#23

“They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#24

“it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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#24

“What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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#25

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

5918 likes

#26

“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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