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Philosophical Quotes
"Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character."
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"We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think about the right words!"
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"Men are often mislead by their fellow-men."
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"Man is a measure of his mind."
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"It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs."
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"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."
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"Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction."
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"Is life worth living? That depends on the liver."
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"Even things that are true can be proved."
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"When your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder!"
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"Man is but his belief."
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"The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music."
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
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"I'm going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I'll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead."
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"He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.Erase the human.In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.Evan Walker had been undone."
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"No man his the master of his fate."
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"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
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"One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder."
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"Man sometimes forget, he will not live forever."
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"Luck of money is never poverty."
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"No circumstance is uncommon to a man."
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"To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible."
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"The wiser I become, the less I think beauty has anything to do with appearance."
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"It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me... And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die!" "So what's it all about? What's it for? It's not possible. It's not possible that life could have been as senseless and sickening as this. And if it has really been as sickening and senseless as this why do I have to die, and die in agony? There's something wrong. Maybe I didn't live as I should have done?" came the sudden thought. "But how can that be when I did everything properly?" he wondered, instantly dismissing as a total impossibility the one and only solution to the mystery of life and death."
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"No one will live forever."
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"All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis)."
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"If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment."
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"Hypocrisy, rejecting what you firmly have in your fist."
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"You are rebirth, therefore you have one foot in life and the other in death."
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"It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance!"
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"No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!"
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"Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work."
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"The world is a clock winding down.I hear it in the wind's icy fingers scratching against the window. I smell it in the mildewed carpeting and the rotting wallpaper of the old hotel. And I feel it in Teacup's chest as she sleeps. The hammering of her heart, the rhythm of her breath, warm in the freezing air, the clock winding down."
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"The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true."
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"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere."
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"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
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"What people think is relative just like who people love."
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"He who don't know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do."
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"Each new day, our minds grow older; the better or bitter daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!"
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"In order for one to be converted to the 'dark' side he/she must have a complete understanding of the 'light' side With it's understanding we all would want to defy, overpower, or destroy what it is capable of."
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