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"What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year."
~ Julian Assange
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“But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”
-Haruki Murakami
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"I drink to make other people
more interesting."
~Ernest Hemingway
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“If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly you are bad. Morality has aesthetic standards.”
— Nietzsche
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"Drink heavily with locals
whenever possible."
~ Anthony Bourdain
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Paul Newman. 12 pack of beer a day for decades. Chained smoked. No morning routine. No supplements. No sun gazing. No fasting. No ice baths. No journaling. Lived artistically and handsome to the ripe old age of 83.
When men were men.
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Literature is the most agreeable
way of ignoring life.
—Fernando Pessoa
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We look at the world once,
in childhood. The rest
is memory.
—Louise Gluck
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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.”
—Umberto Eco
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“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
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“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
—Carl Jung
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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“There's a terror in knowing what the world is about”
― David Bowie
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it."
—Joan Didion
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"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun."
- Keanu Reeves
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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
— Albert Camus
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"I'd rather live on my own
than live with a face
that looks at me with
the wrong eyes."
~ Jane Birkin, RIP
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“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal
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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity."
~ William S. Burroughs
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“Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.”
~ Tom Waits
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Literature is the most agreeable
way of ignoring life.
—Fernando Pessoa
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RIP Louise Gluck 😢
“We look at the world once,
in childhood. The rest
is memory.”
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Everything changes,
everything moves, everything
evolves, everything flies
and goes away.
—Frida Kahlo
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...”
—Noam Chomsky
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Everything changes,
everything moves, everything
evolves, everything flies
and goes away.
—Frida Kahlo
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“Can you remember who you were,
before the world told you who
you should be.”
--Charles Bukowski
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“A gentleman is someone who can play
the accordion, but doesn't.”
― Tom Waits
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Everything changes,
everything moves, everything
evolves, everything flies
and goes away.
—Frida Kahlo
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“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”
— Nietzsche
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���Some people think life is in gluttony, others in the joys of sex, still others in power, and others in worldly glory. They waste their energy on all these pastimes, while in fact people need only one thing: to cultivate their soul.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”
— Nietzsche
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“Many men go fishing all of their
lives without knowing that it
is not fish they are after."
—Henry David Thoreau
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."
~ Henry Miller
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“Some people think life is in gluttony, others in the joys of sex, still others in power, and others in worldly glory. They waste their energy on all these pastimes, while in fact people need only one thing: to cultivate their soul.”
— Leo Tolstoy
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"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it."
– Nietzsche
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"Life goes on. Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain."
~ Hunter S. Thompson
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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin
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"Never delay kissing a pretty girl
or opening a bottle of whiskey."
~ Ernest Hemingway
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"I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning."
—Charles Bukowski
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“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
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If a man knows more than others,
he becomes lonely.
– Carl Jung
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Noam Chomsky:
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...”
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"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."
~ Henry Miller
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“In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead.”
- Samuel Beckett
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I drank to drown my sorrows,
but the damned things learned
how to swim.
—Frida Kahlo
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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
—Carl Jung
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"Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice."
-- Charles Bukowski
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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
— Albert Camus
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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
~ Saul Bellow
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When stupidity is considered patriotism,
it is unsafe to be intelligent.
~ Isaac Asimov
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"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
--Franz Kafka
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“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
— Yohji Yamamoto
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The old world is dying.
And the new world struggles
to be born. Now is the
time of monsters.
- Antonio Gramsci
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"The problem with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat."
--Jed McKenna
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"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again."
— ee cummings
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The great Franz Kafka born on this day in 1883:
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
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My personal hobbies
are reading, listening
to music, and
silence.
—Edith Sitwell
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The old world is dying.
And the new world struggles
to be born. Now is the
time of monsters.
- Antonio Gramsci
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
--Paul Valery
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“I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists.
I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in
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“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus
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We have art
in order not to die
of the truth.
~ Nietzsche
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
― Anthony Bourdain
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“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”
—Samuel Beckett
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“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
― Francis Bacon
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"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news."
~ John Muir
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“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
—Yoshida Kenko
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“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
― Charles Bukowski
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“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
– Carl Jung
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"If you really want to piss people off, you can do two things: Attain some happiness or tell the truth."
—Tennessee Williams
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“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― Carl Sagan
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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin
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"I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions."
~ Charles Bukowski
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“Why are women... so much
more interesting to men
than men are to
women?”
—Virginia Woolf
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“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.”
—Umberto Eco
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“You can’t get to old age by another man’s road. My vices protect me but they would assassinate you.”
-- Mark Twain
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"All I can do is be me --
whoever that is."
~ Bob Dylan
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The great Franz Kafka born on this day in 1883:
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
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"The folks who know the truth aren't talking...The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!"
~ Tom Waits
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“To be alive at all is
to have scars."
- John Steinbeck,
born on this day in 1902.
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“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
~ Hubert Reeves
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
—Oscar Wilde
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“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
—Nikos Kazantzakis
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“Life is a vexatious trap : when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness, he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."
~ Anton Chekhov
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The crowd is the gathering place
of the weakest; true creation
is a solitary act.
— Charles Bukowski
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“It's tragic how few people ever possess their souls before they die. Nothing is more rare in any man, than an act of his own. It is quite true. Most people are other people.”
—Oscar Wilde
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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
—Bertrand Russell
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“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
nobody is going
to do it
for us.
~ Bukowski
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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
~ Aldous Huxley
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“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
—Nikos Kazantzakis
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You can't live in this world
but there's nowhere
else to go.
~ Jack Kerouac
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“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”
― Michel Foucault
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it — don't cheat with it.”
—Ernest Hemingway, died on this day, 1961
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"Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head;
This world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid."
~ Bob Dylan
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”People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”
— Bertrand Russell
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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
--Albert Camus
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