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The mind that is not baffled is not employed. Pilgrim-foolosopher. With my last breath I would make a poem. Listen to the birds, not the news.

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The coolest dog ever is not allowed:

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tutto passa

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We buy gear to do things, but we don’t always do those things.
~ Michael Easter

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When we are traveling … one month away seems longer to us than four at home.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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I wanted to live in interesting times, but this is ridiculous.

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If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.
~ Anne Carson

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For some reason, the drink isn’t improving my mood.

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“Never marry the baby of a large family.”

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On success:
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
~ Arundhati Roy

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He was a man of habit and principle.

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we don’t have time to panic

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we are witnessing the death of reason

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You are a pain in my bibliothèque intérieure.

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he generally found speaking painful and unnecessary

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Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.
~ Richard Dawkins

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"All cruelty springs from weakness."

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develop your own standards of excellence for how you live, what you choose, who you are

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don’t react reflexively
pause and choose

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Health is like a bank account. If you don’t add to it, you will deplete it.

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nobody sets out to live in a cluttered home

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“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference.”