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#1

“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.”
― M.C. Escher

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#2

“The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

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#3

“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#4

“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#5

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: belief

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#6

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#7

“How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#8

“Once you label me you negate me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: labels, stereotypes

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#9

“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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#10

“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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#11

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

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#12

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: sincerity, skepticism, suffering

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#13

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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#14

“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

tags: love, old-age

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#15

“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

tags: desperation, humor

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#16

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: absurdism

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#17

“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
― Albert Camus

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#18

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, rebel

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#19

“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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#20

“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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#21

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom

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#22

“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: teacher, teaching

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#23

“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: belief, bible

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#24

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

tags: humor

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#25

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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#26

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism

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#27

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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