#Point of No Return
Andre Vltchek
"I have no religion to convert from," I wrote.
"No religion? Don't you feel scared?"
"Scared of what?"
"Scared of not belonging to anything."
"No. But I feel scared of belonging to something that teaches people to believe in the unknown."
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As I crossed te bridge, I looked back at the city. It had never seemed to hold me back, to stop me, to change my mind. It never seemed to judge me. It merely stood there, arrogant, proud, indifferent, cold, and yet full of promise, and beauty.
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#Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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The pencil felt thick and awkward in his fingers. He began to write down the thoughts that came into his head. He wrote first in large clumsy capitals:
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#Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
For human beings, life is meaning ful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens.
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#A Journey, through Time, with Anthony
Anthony
Why do we travel?
Maybe, it's because that someone, something, or somewhere, once you leave behind you can never return. Or think that you won't be able to return.
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#Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - an Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
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Trials never end, of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.
$12/30/23$
#Art, Truth & Politics
Harold Pinter
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is no necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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#Interview with Playboy Magazine
Stanley Kubrick
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning...
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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#The Godfather
Mario Puzo
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
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He smiled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is beautiful."
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The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. Hes has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then.
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