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#1

“I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.”
― Robert Walser, The Tanners

tags: future, present, value

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#2

“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

tags: shy

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#3

“The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.”
― Robert Walser

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#4

“In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.”
― Robert Walser, The Walk and Other Stories

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#5

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#6

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#7

“El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: ciencia-ficcion, dune, existence, existencial, life, realidad, reality, science-fiction, vida

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#8

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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#9

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

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#10

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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