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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing. - Charles Bukowski

"When the entire world is filled with cowardice, those who stand alone are considered monsters. When the world is depraved and insane, the one who thinks with logic is deemed the Madman".

(I can't even remember who it was that said this one.)

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. - Adrienne Rich

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. - Dante Alighieri

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? - Andy Warhol

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. - B. R. Ambedkar

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant

“Maybe this was what being in a pandemic brought forth. When everything big is out of control, you start taking charge of small things.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world. - Han Fei

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. - Harvey Milk

Vengeance comes where justice does not prevail.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain

Life is a long lesson in humility.

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." — Langston Hughes

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. - Tina Turner (RIP)

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. - Franz Kafka

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

“True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables