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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
    tags: atheism, death, inspirational, life
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    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
    tags: love
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
    tags: women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: men, rescuing, women
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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Anton Chekhov
    “You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: beauty, earth, heaven, life, reason, truth, understand, wisdom
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Edmund Husserl
    “I must achieve internal consistency.”
    ― Edmund Husserl
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    Tristan Tzara
    “You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”
    ― Tristan Tzara
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    Tristan Tzara
    “I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way."

    - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”
    ― Tristan Tzara
    tags: dada, dadaism
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    Tristan Tzara
    “Always destroy what is in you.”
    ― Tristan Tzara, Oeuvres Completes
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    Georges Bataille
    “The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
    ― Georges Bataille
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    Georges Bataille
    “Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
    ― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality
    tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard
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    Georges Bataille
    “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
    ― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
    tags: contradiction, truth
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    Alfred Jarry
    “It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.”
    ― Alfred Jarry
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    Alfred Jarry
    “It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
    ― Alfred Jarry
    tags: guns
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    Christopher Hampton
    “The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”
    ― Christopher Hampton, Total Eclipse
    tags: l-existence-est-feroce, sucky-things, weltschmerz
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
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    Philippe Soupault
    “Choosing is Aging.”
    ― Philippe Soupault, Last Nights Of Paris
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Martin Amis
    “Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”
    ― Martin Amis, Other People
    tags: fear, social-anxiety
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    Martin Amis
    “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
    ― Martin Amis, London Fields
    tags: age, aging, life, time
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Chance
    tags: women
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    Joseph Conrad
    “We live as we dream--alone....”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    tags: dream, loneliness
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    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: religion, sobriety
    865 likes



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