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#2

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery

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#3

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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#4

“Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: ecology, self-destruction

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#5

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

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#6

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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#7

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: god, love, religion

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#8

“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: life, love, racism

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#9

“I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#10

“We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lie alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out - that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it's too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#11

“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#12

“We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#13

“something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world’s remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#14

“I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

tags: disappointment, dissapointed

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#15

“Maybe I’m ignorant and idealistic but I just feel like that can’t possibly be true. I feel like we know that. I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear—at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five—we might forget.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#16

“Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#17

“The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#18

“Everything will be destroyed no matter how hard we work to create it. The idea terrifies me. I want tiny permanents. I want gigantic permanents! I want what I think and who I am captured in an anthology of indulgence I can comfortingly tuck into a shelf in some labyrinthine library.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

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#19

“some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and”
― Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge

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#20

“If you hate violence and don’t believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education. Perhaps society is past praying for, but there is always hope for the individual human being, if you can catch him young enough. This belief partly accounts for Dickens’s preoccupation with childhood.”
― George Orwell, All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

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#21

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy

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#22

“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any accepted standards whatever -- any external reference which can give meaning to the statement that such and such a book is "good" or "bad" -- every literary judgement consists in trumping up a set of rules to justify an instinctive preference. One's real reaction to a book, when one has a reaction at all, is usually "I like this book" or "I don't like it" and what follows is a rationalisation.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

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#23

“To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

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#24

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#25

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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#26

“Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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#27

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul

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#28

“The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: courage, risk, showing-up

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#29

“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.”
― Alaric Hutchinson

tags: acceptance, accountability, avoidance, bravery, compassion, conflict-resolution, consciousness, courage, giving, growth, inner-peace, inspirational, listening, love, pain, peace, peace-of-mind, peace-on-earth, present-moment, psychology, relationships, showing-up, spiritual, uncomfortable, wisdom, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by, zen

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#30

“everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it”
― Andy Warhol

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#31

“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: charity, disagreement, foolishness, hatred, humanity, interconnectedness, love, tolerance, wisdom

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