Quotes to remember

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    “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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    "Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
    Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
    and bow their heads." - Mary Oliver

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    "Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine."
    ―Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
     
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    “We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
     
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    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
     
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    "The journey beyond the self is not safe or predictable. On the other hand, staying in the self also has its risks – boredom, staleness, sterility, despair. Ultimately, there’s something in us that calls to us, that pulls us out the door. Let’s find out where it leads."--Jules Evans
     
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    "when death comes
    like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
    I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
    what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?"

    Mary Oliver

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    “What labels me, negates me.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
     
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    "One of the most difficult lessons to impart to young scientists is that the search for the truth can run counter to the search for consensus. Indeed, truth and consensus must never be conflated. Sadly, it is a lesson more easily understood by a student starting out in the field. From then on, year after year, the combined pressures of peers and job-market prospects encourage the tendency to play it safe.”
    ― Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
     
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    “Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.”
    ― Tara Kelly, Harmonic Feedback

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    “The window is where curiosities meet. Insiders are curious about the outside, and outsiders are curious about the inside! When the window is opened, those who wonder flow towards the place they wonder, those inside are out, those outside are in!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan
     
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    I've been meaning to read this, but you can stream the movie on Netflix. Books are always better than their film adaptations, though.
     
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    “The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
    ― Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

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    “I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back.”
    ― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

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    “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
    ― Bertrand Russell

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    "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." -- Khalil Gibran
     
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    "I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to,".---Jimi Hendrix

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