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    Harry Houdini
    “Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.”
    ― Harry Houdini
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    Haruki Murakami
    “But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: loneliness
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
    I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
    ― jonathan safran foer
    tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: literature, reading, solitude
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    C.S. Lewis
    “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
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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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    John Mayer
    “Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
    ― John Mayer, John Mayer - Battle Studies | Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab | Easy Guitar Arrangements for Beginners | 10 Hit Songs from John Mayer’s 2009 Album | ... for Beginners
    tags: alone, solitude
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    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: comfort, sad, sadness
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    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    ― Nicholas Klein
    tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Yet each man kills the thing he loves
    By each let this be heard
    Some do it with a bitter look
    Some with a flattering word
    The coward does it with a kiss
    The brave man with a sword”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse
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    Osamu Tezuka
    “My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death...”
    ― Osamu Tezuka
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
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    Frantz Fanon
    “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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    Jay McInerney
    “Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”
    ― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
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    Rachel Caine
    “There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.”
    ― Rachel Caine, Unknown
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
    tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment
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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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    Charles Bukowski
    “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: drinking, rebirth
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    Nick Hornby
    “I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: characterization, dark-humor, fiction, personal-insight, rob-gordon
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: alcohol, bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: bukowski, charles-bukowski
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: loneliness, secret-knowledge, secrets, solitude
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
    tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
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    Neil Gaiman
    “This little piggy went to Hades
    This little piggy stayed home
    This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh
    This little piggy violated virgins
    And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top”
    ― Neil Gaiman
    tags: corpses, hades, humor, nursery-rhymes, piggy, pigs
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    George MacDonald
    “Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
    Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
    These hands, that now are at home in thine,
    Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine;
    And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride,
    In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide,
    If the truest love thy heart can know
    Meet the truest love that from mine can flow.
    Pray God, beloved, for thee and me,
    That our sourls may be wedded eternally.”
    ― George MacDonald, The Diary of an Old Soul
    tags: love
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