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    Albert Camus
    “To create is to live twice.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, create, live
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
    tags: masks
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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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    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    ― John Rogers
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
    Mort thought for a moment.
    "No," he said eventually, "what?"
    There was silence.
    Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: answers, fate, questions
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    Ronald Reagan
    “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: government-programs, scope-of-government
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    Franz Kafka
    “If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place?.... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
    --Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books, waking-up
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    Darnell Lamont Walker
    “It's nice to wake up in the morning alone and not have to tell someone you love them when you don't love them anymore.”
    ― Darnell Lamont Walker
    tags: love, mornings, waking-up
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    Albert Camus
    “The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, camus
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    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
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  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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  • #19
    “It's only artists who know how to use their
    eyes”
    ― Grant Albert Camus
    tags: albert-camus, fiction, grant, the-plage
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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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
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Norm Macdonald
    “Women are attracted to funny men, it is often said. This is not true. It only appears this way because women laugh at everything a very handsome man says. So this gives the very handsome men the idea that they are funny.”
    ― Norm Macdonald, Based on a True Story
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    Primo Levi
    “The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
    ― Primo Levi
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “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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    Deepak Chopra
    “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)”
    ― Deepak Chopra, SynchroDestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles
    tags: enlightenment, faith, joy, miracles, synchronicity, trust, worry
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
    ― Paul Coelho
    225 likes



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