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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul.

—Edith Wharton

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The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless...

—Christian Wiman

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Happiness! There is no word with more meanings, each person understands it in his own way.

—Fernán Caballero

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If God did not exist, everything would be permitted”; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot...

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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A person’s Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

—Michael Levy

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Crap.It’s all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn’t anybody realize this?

—K-Ske Hasegawa

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You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

—Kathryn Davis

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The...

—Neil deGrasse

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You’re bigger than I remember,” she said stupidly.”You too,” he said. “I also remember that you were beautiful.””Memory does play tricks on us.””No. Your face is the same, but I don’t remember what beautiful means...

—Orson Scott

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I often feel an aversion, even disgust at the same words written and spoken over and over – at the same expressions, phrases, and metaphors repeated. And the worst is, when I listen to myself...

—Pascal Mercier

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The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between...

—Roman Jakobson

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Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person’s life its true meaning.

—Paulo Coelho

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But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are...

—Viktor E.

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Words have weight.

—Stephen King

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I, sometimes, fear that probably I’ll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I’ll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.

—Sanhita Baruah

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We have been cut off from our souls in the West, and because romantic love has become our religion, we think we can find fulfillment through this extraordinary and powerful force that draws us into...

—Sarah Bartlett

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For Hood’s sake,’ the foreigner muttered. ‘What’s wrong with words?’ ‘With words,’ said Redmask, turning away, ‘meanings change.’ ‘Well,’ Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army’s camp,.. ‘that is...

—Steven Erikson

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If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it...

—Alberto Caeiro

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After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the couch, he remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see...

—Alain de Botton

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Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead...

—A.J. Darkholme

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Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. So...

—Arianna Huffington

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The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

—Chris Hedges

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One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

—Criss Jami

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Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

—Criss Jami

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If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

—Douglas Adams

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The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things…

—James A. Murphy

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And if I’m guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I’m also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to...

—George R.R.

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Today I’m feeling uncharacteristically chiaroscuro, and I don’t know what that means for my future, or as a word.

—Jarod Kintz

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

—Dean Koontz

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It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

—Gyalwa Dokhampa

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Who are you?

—Mac MacKenzie

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In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

—Mark Sayers

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The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

—Mircea Eliade

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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the...

—Kij Johnson

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I don’t tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of ’04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of...

—Richard Russo

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You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to then. The domain of the rules was no longer enough for you; you...

—Michel Houellebecq

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Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out – a...

—Tobias Wolff

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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

—Samuel Adams

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As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

—Paul Dano

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thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

—Terence McKenna

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photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

—Unknown Author

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The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

—Vera Nazarian

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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper...

—Aberjhani

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I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real...

—Alberto Caeiro

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We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.

—A.J. Darkholme

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The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred...

—A.W. Tozer

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It’s basically a joke.” “I think it’s cool,” Julian says. “It’s all about control, right?” He considers something. “It’s not a joke. You should take it seriously. I mean, you’re also one of the producers–”...

—Bret Easton

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I have no rules. For me, it’s a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You’re looking...

—David Cronenberg

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I don’t know what a credit bubble means. I don’t even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don’t think they have any meaning.

—Eugene Fama

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Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when...

—Cristiane Serruya

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