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    Robert Jordan
    “He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
    ― Robert Jordan, New Spring
    tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot
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    Albert Camus
    “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
    tags: existential, existentialism, humble, humility, self-loathing, self-realization
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse
    tags: ageing, inifinity, life, old-age
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    Rob Ryser
    “At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.”
    ― Rob Ryser, Great Desires for Absent Things
    tags: destiny, existence, existential, identity, meaning, origin, purpose
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
    tags: indifference, suicide
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The minute I heard my first love story,
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    how blind that was.
    Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
    They're in each other all along.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi
    tags: lovers
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
    When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
    Praise God for those two insomnias!
    And the difference between them.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: love
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: wisdom
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    ― Jalalu'l-din Rumi
    tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi
    1581 likes

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  • #12
    Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
    “Be melting snow.
    Wash yourself of yourself.”
    ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
    tags: inspirational
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  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Oh soul,
    you worry too much.
    You have seen your own strength.
    You have seen your own beauty.
    You have seen your golden wings.
    Of anything less,
    why do you worry?
    You are in truth
    the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: jalal-ad-din-rumi, konya, mevlana, rumi, turkey
    783 likes

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    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism
    2533 likes

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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: art, individuality, inspirational, life, new, otherness
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  • #16
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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  • #17
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: philosophy, writing
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  • #19
    Gilles Deleuze
    “The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
    tags: body, otherness, shadow, shadow-self
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    Gilles Deleuze
    “Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    tags: lacan, psychoanalysis, shit
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  • #21
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze
    tags: art, l-abécédaire-de-gilles-deleuze, philosophy, science
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  • #22
    Gilles Deleuze
    “Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes.”
    ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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  • #24
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: generosity, pride
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
    ― Soren A. Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity, god, pride
    438 likes

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  • #26
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

    It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems
    tags: betrayal, forgiveness, love, pride
    389 likes

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  • #27
    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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