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    Don DeLillo
    “No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
    ― Don DeLillo, White Noise
    tags: death
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: inspirational, women
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    Don DeLillo
    “If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
    ― Don DeLillo, Point Omega
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    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: freedom, women, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Mae West
    “It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: independent, strong-women, tough-lady
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    “On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”
    ― Ellen J. Barrier
    tags: character, characteristic-traits, couple, couples, left-side, man, men, relationship, relationships, side, stand, stand-by, strength, strengthen, strengthened, strong, strong-man, strong-men, strong-woman, strong-women, woman, women
    104 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep
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    Albert Camus
    “O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus, L’été
    tags: albert-camus, summer, winter
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

    - The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The October Country
    tags: beer, drinking, idiots, intellectuals
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    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.”
    ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays
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    Hannah Arendt
    “When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ”
    ― Hannah Arendt
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    Ayn Rand
    “Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand
    175 likes



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