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#1

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: affection, equality, love, relationships

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#2

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

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#3

“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Johnson, Vol 4

tags: importance

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#4

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: decisions, indecision

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#5

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: quantum-physics, uncertainty

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#6

“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: youth

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#7

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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#8

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: wisdom

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#9

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: oppression, slavery

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#10

“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

tags: craziness, crazy, evil, poetry

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#11

“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: everything, existential, existentialism, life, metaphor

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#12

“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
― Albert Camus

tags: camus, existentialism, goodness, ignorance, the-plague

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#13

“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

tags: existentialism, meaning

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#14

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
― Paul Tillich

tags: doubt, existentialism, faith

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#15

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
― Havelock Ellis

tags: jealousy

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#16

“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
― Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache

tags: jealousy, laughter

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#17

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

tags: not-alone

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#18

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: life, nature, philosophy

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#19

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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#20

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
― Voltaire

tags: appreciation, gratitude

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#21

“In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

tags: mystery, unknown

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#22

“He wanted me to come home--to come home, as he said, and settle down, and whenever he said that I thought of the sediment at the bottom of a stagnant pond.”
― James Baldwin

tags: home, stagnation

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#23

“Love is a disease of the youth; most of us go through it. A few are cured, the rest are disabled.”
― Martin Foreman, A Sense of Loss & Other Stories

tags: disillusionment, love

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