“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
Marcel Duchamp
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Well, if God doesn’t exist, who’s laughing at us?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Submitted by saber-y-conocer)
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(via National Geographic Magazine)
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A torrid sun moves stiffly in my head like a magic lantern slide. A fragment of blue sky follows; after a few jolts it becomes motionless. I am all golden within.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via shiraselko)
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Simone de Beauvoir (via misswallflower)
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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