Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

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The thinker needs no one to refute him, for that he has himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (via philosophyquotes)

In another world we shall understand it all.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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Survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (via philosophyquotes)

The self is an ocean without a shore. Gazing upon it has no beginning or no end, in this world and the next.

Ibn Arabi

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