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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: franz-kafka
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
    tags: inspirational
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    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom-kindness
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    tags: imagination, reality
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
    tags: paradoxes, prejudice
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions
    tags: difficulty, noble, philosophy, poverty
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses
    tags: happiness
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”
    ― Rousseau Jean - Jacques
    tags: emile, faith, god, nature
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Trust your heart rather than your head.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
    tags: change, flexibility, humorous, personal-development, personality, self
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
    tags: clock, future, past, possibilities, ticking, time
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    John Green
    “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: future, labyrinth, life, past, present
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    Anthony Doerr
    “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
    ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
    1949 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: self-betrayal, truth
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, regret
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  • #30
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity
    1138 likes



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