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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: gandalf, grief
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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    C.G. Jung
    “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: darkness-self-knowledge, social
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    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Hermann Hesse
    “You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
    ― Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
    tags: inspirational
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    Hermann Hesse
    “In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
    tags: discordian, discordianism, eternity, humor, joke
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    Hermann Hesse
    “The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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    Hermann Hesse
    “A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
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    Hermann Hesse
    “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Hermann Hesse
    “You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: actions, life, living, thoughts
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    Hermann Hesse
    “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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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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    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, living
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    Albert Camus
    “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: civilization, writers, writing
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    Albert Camus
    “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: on-fiction
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    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    ― Albert Camus
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