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Resolved I go to the inkpot
And write with thick rivers of ink.
What fluidity, what fullness, what style!
How great it all is, how I do it!
Perhaps my writing needs clarity –
And so what? Who reads what I write?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative…
Anton Chekhov
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We think we are free because we are unaware of the forces that govern us.
Baruch Spinoza
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Never trust a man with a well-groomed mustache.
Charles Bukowski
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
Albert Camus
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Don't believe the hype.
Public Enemy
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Concerning the life story, there are no precise instructions. The beginning can start at any point in time, just as a first glance can alight on any point within a painting; what matters is that, gradually, the whole picture emerges.
Michel Houellebecq
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul.
Henry Miller
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We sell our souls in public and buy them back in private, among our friends.
George Orwell
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
Diane Arbus
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... tell me brave captain, why are the wicked so strong, how do the angels get to sleep, when the devil leaves the porchlight on ...
Tom Waits
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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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