November 2011
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Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid...
– Hunter S Thompson, The Rum Diary
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding...
– Malcolm X
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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
– David Foster Wallace
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When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier,...
– Pablo Picasso
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Happy,” I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those...
– Hunter S Thompson, The Rum Diary
September 2011
11 posts
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he...
– Epicurus
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Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you...
– Jon Krakauer
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Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
– Pablo Neruda
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But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I...
– Aldous Huxley
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?
– Muriel Barbery
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For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings,...
– T.S. Eliot
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I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself...
– Chelsea Handler
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.
– Salvador Dali
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...
– Simone de Beauvoir
July 2011
1 post
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
– Albert Camus
June 2011
11 posts
Everything you can imagine is real.
– Pablo Picasso (via 1000scientists)
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid...
– Jack London
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and...
– Sylvia Plath
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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be...
– Paulo Coelho
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I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and...
– John Green
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime...
– Winston Churchill
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I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at...
– Neil Gaiman
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my...
– Maya Angelou
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful
– Milan Kundera
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If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don’t show them up...
– Henry Rollins
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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or...
– Tom Robbins
May 2011
4 posts
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...
– C.S. Lewis (via youcantry)
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of...
– Plato
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all,...
– John Steinbeck
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And...
– St. Augustine (via cordura)
April 2011
53 posts
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left...
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
– Kurt Vonnegut
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
– Lord Byron
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression of...
– Sylvia Plath
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The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.
– Ernest Hemingway- Farewell To Arms (via quote-book)
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion. I have shuddered...
– John Keats
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It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The...
– Rose Kennedy
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Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or...
– Dave Eggers
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If I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I?
– Erich Fromm
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each...
– Mark Twain
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Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. I say fall...
– Meet Joe Black
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.
– C.S. Lewis
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more...
– Albert Einstein
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I...
– A.A. Milne
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Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are...
– Lemony Snicket