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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
    tags: cheese, poetry
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: travel
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: love-loss
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: gullibility
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
    tags: authors, books, writing
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: reading, words, writing
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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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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    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
    tags: music
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life, personal-responsibility
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “We are our choices.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: choices
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
    ― Jean Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
    1389 likes



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