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    Vince Flynn
    “People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)”
    ― Vince Flynn, Consent to Kill
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    Machado de Assis
    “He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
    ― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia
    tags: balance, evil, good
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    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    ― China Miéville, King Rat
    tags: challenge, trap
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
    4749 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: art-on-writing
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    Wyndham Lewis
    “Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
    ― Wyndham Lewis
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    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl
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    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Douglas Coupland
    “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
    ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
    tags: irony, life, loneliness
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    Anchee Min
    “If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
    ― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir
    tags: fighting, mother, womb
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    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    ― Wilkie Collins, Armadale
    tags: books
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
    tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: conscience, politics, right
    4839 likes

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    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: humor
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: identity, pretend
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    Alice Walker
    “Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
    ― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems
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    Peter F. Hamilton
    “You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.”
    ― Peter F. Hamilton
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
    tags: happiness, life, sea
    2158 likes

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    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
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  • #23
    “Love is a rebellious bird,
    that nobody can tame,
    and you call him quite in vain,
    if it suits him not to come.”
    ― Ludovic Halévy
    tags: love, opera
    1300 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    Kurt Cobain
    “Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
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    John Stuart Mill
    “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
    tags: duty, paraphrased, political, political-philosophy, us-history
    580 likes

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  • #28
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
    4841 likes

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    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    ― J.G. Ballard
    tags: imagination, immortality
    1860 likes

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    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    ― Leonard Woolf
    1566 likes



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