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The guillotine must also kills the executioner who failed to execute or whose hands fall short in the task of doing his job.
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“They muddy the water to make it seem deep.”
Fredrick Nietzsche
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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I've asked for revenge but karma said, "no, I'll do it myself."
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A random boredom has now taken over the same where friendship and laughter once lively stood.
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I've met with the Medusa of the Christian faith, and like Lot's wife, I've been turned into a pillar of salt instead of a frozen stone. By his gaze, he commanded me to be the salt of the earth.
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My first birthright is the rightness of my birth, that is, my right to be born and to be here. Without this birthright, all other birthrights are mere scam!
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“Life isn’t that messy if you stay away from mess.”
— Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You
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“Best to be like water, which benefits the ten thousand things and does not contend… Keep your mind deep. Treat others well. Stand by your word. Make fair rules. Do the right thing. Work when it’s time. Only do not contend, and you will not go wrong.”
— Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 8)
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“However rare true love may be, true friendship is even rarer.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
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The root of our problems is our love for the roots of all evil!
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“We shall understand the world when we understand ourselves, because we and it are integral halves.”
— Novalis, Logological Fragments I
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“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.”
— Franz Kafka
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“Your heart understood mine. In the depth of the fragrant night, I listened with ravished soul to your beloved voice. Your heart understood mine.”
— Louisa May Alcott
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