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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Motto"

    In the dark times
    Will there also be singing?
    Yes, there will also be singing.
    About the dark times.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
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    Milan Kundera
    “And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: happiness, life, man, plight, time
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    André Breton
    “A word and everything is saved.
    A word and all is lost.”
    ― André Breton
    tags: word, words
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    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
    tags: poetry, words
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    Emma Goldman
    “If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchy, music, revolution
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    Milan Kundera
    “vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
    ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    tags: emptiness, milan-kundera
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: death
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Sei Shōnagon
    “If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”
    ― Sei Shōnagon
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    E.E. Cummings
    “I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
    than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: constructive-living, inspirational
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    Tasos Leivaditis
    “When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead_”
    ― Tasos Livaditis
    tags: poems
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    Emma Goldman
    “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchy, forgiveness, understanding-others
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: loneliness, solitude
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    László Krasznahorkai
    “Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse - disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth.”
    ― László Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below
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    Jean Cocteau
    “A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
    ”
    ― Jean Cocteau
    tags: poem-poetry-poet
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Hell is—other people!”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
    tags: garcin, hell, people
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    Ulrike Marie Meinhof
    “Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.”
    ― Ulrike Meinhof
    tags: political-revolutionary
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    Oliver Stone
    “Hell is the impossibility of reason.”
    ― Oliver Stone
    tags: afterlife, evil, frustration, inquisitive
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
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    Max Stirner
    “What else was Diogenes of Sinope seeking for than the true enjoyment of life, which he discovered in having the least possible wants?”
    ― Max Stirner, The Ego And His Own: The Case Of The Individual Against Authority
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    Haruki Murakami
    “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: adversity, inspirational, life-lessons, problems, trials
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Max Stirner
    “I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them.”
    ― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
    tags: anarchism, ego, free-will, love
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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    Renzo Novatore
    “We have killed “duty” so that our ardent desire for free brotherhood acquires heroic valor in life. We have killed “pity” because we are barbarians capable of great love. We have killed “altruism” because we are generous egoists. We have killed “philanthropic solidarity” so that the social man unearths his most secret “I” and finds the strength of the “Unique”.”
    ― Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing and Other Writings
    tags: anarchism, egoism
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Only in silence the word,
    Only in dark the light,
    Only in dying life:
    Bright the hawk's flight
    On the empty sky.

    —The Creation of Éa”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
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    Samuel Beckett
    “There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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