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“My life is nothing. It wouldn’t have any meaning without putting it to good use. Don’t you think?”

— Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

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“The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.”

— Simone Weil, “The Power of Words”

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“And the world has become merely an unknown landscape where my heart can lean on nothing.”

—  Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942 (via inspiwriter)

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“Luck only happens once and it’s always an accident when it does.”

— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.” – John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

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Tiny drops of insanity

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“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”

— Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists

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Over my shoulder,

A little bird flew over,

It brushed my skin.

And laughed at me.

Seeing all the truths I am blinded by,

Little stars in its eyes,

They shine so brightly.

It watches me quietly,

Preying upon me with cruel reality.

I feel enlightened,

And lie back down,

For nothing is going to change the fact,

That colors might shine brightly,

Except for the Grey sky,

That is soaking a lonely today.

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summer wine.

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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”

— Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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“Always and Never”, also known as “Death and the Maiden”, 19th century, Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert.

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“What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“He was quiet in the way people are when they believe the world would get along just fine without them.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

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Everyday I live a little but the emptiness holds me down.