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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
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    Banana Yoshimoto
    “People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.”
    ― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen
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    Yann Martel
    “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: inspirational, religious
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
    ― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: loneliness
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    D.H. Lawrence
    “It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    tags: life, loneliness, philosophy
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Ariel Dorfman
    “Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.”
    ― Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden
    tags: truth
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Dante Alighieri
    “O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
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    David Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: books, love, reading
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
    ― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
    tags: dread
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    Christopher Isherwood
    “The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.”
    ― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
    tags: books, comfort, love
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    David Mitchell
    “We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    David Mitchell
    “...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: inferno-canto-vi-105
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    Dante Alighieri
    “The path to paradise begins in hell.”
    ― Dante Alighieri
    tags: heaven, hell, paradise
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    Dante Alighieri
    “L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
    tags: grandness, love, passion, true-love
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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    Jarod Kintz
    “I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, How to construct a coffin with six karate chops
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    Simone Weil
    “A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”
    ― Simone Weil, Waiting for God
    tags: feminism, mysticism
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    Alan W. Watts
    “A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: eqaility, faith, freedom, laughter, mysticism, religion, spirituality
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    Joseph Campbell
    “The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
    ― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
    tags: attributed, metaphor, mysticism, psychosis, schizophrenia
    354 likes



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