"Ignorance was bliss."

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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

James Baldwin, American Novelist

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"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"How can the truth make anything worse?"

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

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"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

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"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

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"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."

"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."

"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."

"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."

"How can the truth make anything worse?"

"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."

"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."

"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."

"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

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"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."