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    Albert Camus
    “Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: learning, philosophy, wisdom
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: individuality, reflection
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: fear, paradox, suffer, suffering
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?

    How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: credulity, fables, superstition
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
    tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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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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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
    tags: manners, politeness, rudeness
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “All language is but a poor translation.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “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
    5112 likes



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