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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated
    tags: egoism, suffering
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
    tags: capitalism
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    E.L. Doctorow
    “It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
    tags: chapter-15
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    Jonathan Lethem
    “Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.”
    ― Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
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    Jonathan Lethem
    “Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.”
    ― Jonathan Lethem , Motherless Brooklyn
    tags: humor, talking, verbal-diarrhea
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life-and-death
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    tags: american-dream, fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mário de Andrade
    “Ai, que preguiça!”
    ― Mario de Andrade
    tags: brasil, brazil, cultura, culture, macunaíma, modernism, modernismo
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    Vinicius de Moraes
    “A vida é a arte do encontro, embora haja tanto desencontro pela vida.”
    ― Vinicius de Moraes
    tags: life
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    Mikhail Lermontov
    “Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
    ― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
    tags: fire, love
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    Mikhail Lermontov
    “I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.”
    ― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    Hannah Arendt
    “Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
    tags: evil, holocaust, morality
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    Hannah Arendt
    “In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
    tags: nazism
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    Franz Kafka
    “all [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Castle
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    Franz Kafka
    “and i would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Castle
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    Lester R. Brown
    “Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. Each”
    ― Lester Russell Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
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    Álvaro de Campos
    “Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo”
    ― álvaro de campos, Tabacaria e Outros Poemas
    tags: inspirational-quote
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    Mikhail Lermontov
    “What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”
    ― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
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    William Golding
    “The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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    William Golding
    “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
    ― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
    tags: empowerment, equality, gender, men, superiority, women
    759 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    33 likes



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