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“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”. — Charles Bukowski
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“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”. — Haruki Murakami
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”. — Charles Darwin
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“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”. — Albert Camus
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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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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”. — Leo Tolstoy
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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”. — Sigmund Freud
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”. — Franz Kafka
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”. — Haruki Murakami
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“To be alone is the fate of all great minds.”. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”. — Franz Kafka
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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”. — Sylvia Plath
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“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”. — Simone de Beauvoir
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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”. — Sigmund Freud
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“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”. — Erich Fromm
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“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”. — Albert Camus
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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”. — Haruki Murakami
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“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”. — Leo Tolstoy
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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”. — Charles Bukowski
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“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”. — Haruki Murakami
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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”. — Charles Bukowski
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“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.”. — Franz Kafka
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“Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.”. — Franz Kafka
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“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”. — Kahlil Gibran
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“Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.”. — Leo Tolstoy
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“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”. — Albert Camus
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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”. — Victor Hugo
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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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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”. — Ernest Hemingway
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”. — Marcus Aurelius
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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”. — Ernest Hemingway
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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“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.”. — Franz Kafka
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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”. — Albert Camus
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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”. — Margaret Atwood
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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”. — Anton Chekhov
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”. — Albert Camus
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“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”. — Erich Fromm
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“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”. — Leo Tolstoy
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”. — Ernest Hemingway
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“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”. — Simone Weil
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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”. — Rainer Maria Rilke
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“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”. — Søren Kierkegaard
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“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”. — Carl Jung
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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”. — John Steinbeck
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“Find what you love and let it kill you.”. — Charles Bukowski
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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”. — Charles 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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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”. — Jean de La Fontaine
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“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.”. — Charles Bukowski
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power.”. — John Steinbeck
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“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”. — Charles Bukowski
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“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”. — Herman Melville
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“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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“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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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”. — Oscar Wilde
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”. — Aldous Huxley
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“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”. — Albert Camus
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“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”. — Marie Curie
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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”. — Margaret Atwood
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“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”. — Frida Kahlo
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“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.”. — Leo Tolstoy
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”. — Leo Tolstoy
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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”. — Walt Whitman
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”. — Samuel Beckett
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“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”. — Robert Frost
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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”. — Franz Kafka
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“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”. — Hermann Hesse
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“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”. — Albert Camus
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“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”. — Carl Jung
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“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”. — Alain de Botton
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“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”. — Haruki Murakami
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.”. — C. S. Lewis
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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”. — Agatha Christie
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“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”. — Virginia Woolf
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“When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen.”. — Ernest Hemingway
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”. — Haruki Murakami
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“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”. — Voltaire
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”. — Simone Weil
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”. — Samuel Beckett
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“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”. — Carl Jung
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