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#1

“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

tags: life-lessons

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#2

“Oamenii cauta fericirea cum cauta sangele inima.”
― Aglaja Veteranyi

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#3

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

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“When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy窶敗ome call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

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#5

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#6

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”
― Andrﾃｩ Gide

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#7

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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#8

“The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”
― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

tags: door, truth

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#9

“There is no difference between a wall and a door which is not used! For a door to be a door, it must be used! For anything to be itself, it must be used!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: door

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#10

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― emily bronte

tags: classics, romance

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#11

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: life

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#12

“E strﾃ｢mt aici, dar ai unde sﾄ�-ﾈ嬖 pierzi minﾅ｣ile.”
― Marin Sorescu, Iona

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#13

“Drawing is the root of everything!”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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#14

“All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.”
― Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life/Social Studies

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“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don't want to do. And if I lose, I'm one step closer to ruining my entire life. And I never know whether I'm going to win or lose until the last second.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

tags: accurate, motivation, self-discipline, self-motivation

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“I've always wanted not to give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

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“The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don窶冲 like can be overwhelming.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

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“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.”
― Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will

tags: dream, hope, time

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#19

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#20

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: love

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#21

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: life, questions

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#22

“Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

tags: celebrity, celebrity-memoir, creativity, creativity-and-attitude, memoir, perseverance, talent

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#23

“When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.”
― Milorad Pavic, Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words

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#24

“I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.”
― Milorad Paviﾄ�, Dictionary of the Khazars

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#25

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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#26

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

tags: banned-books, censorship, free-speech, intellectual-freedom

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“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight窶冱 Children

tags: destiny, existence

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#28

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry

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#29

“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: ghosts, regrets

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“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

tags: aims, courage, creative-process, empowerment, experience, guenter-grass, memory, record-of-life, strength, writing

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