"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
"The problem with close-minded people is that they usually have their mouths open."
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."
"Violence is the question."
"You are your guiding authority; not your parents, not your principal, not your teacher, not your prime minister, not your siblings, not your boss, not your president, not your God, not your universe. You, and only you, are in charge of who you are, and who you become."
"Be curious, not judgmental."
"Life is meaningless: there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Remember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free."
"I fall into every mold, yet no mold. As I live this moment, is as I live life. There is but the present. The past is but fact of what has already passed; the future is nothing but an empty page ready to be defined; a hot mold ready to be hammered at the whim of the artist or creator."
"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough."
"Careful when you date passionate people, because passion swings both ways. Sometimes they'll love you, but other times they'll hate you. And when they hate you... boy, do they hate you."
“Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.”
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"The only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
“Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it."
"Nature is cruel, that does not mean we have to be."
"The love of democracy is that of equality."
"Love is not a predetermined set of principles or ideals; it's whatever the hell you want it to be."
"A true existentialist lives in eternal intrigue."
"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause."
"Humans, he realized, spent too much time justifying both life and death, and in doing so, forgot the value of being something in a universe full of nothing but everything."
"To the human mind, anything and everything existed only so long as it was occurring, as well as being observed. This led to an inevitable question for Herman; when you died, was it you that ended? Or the universe?"
"Darkness was the base-point of all that was perceivable within the natural universe. Like an island, light stood as a recurring phenomenon within an endless ocean of black space, just as it was now, with the streetlights acting as the natural defiant against the overwhelming odds of the all-enveloping shadow of reality."
"The only thing worth globalising is dissent."
"1 universe, 8 planets, 204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas, 6 billion people, and I had the incredible privilege of meeting you."
"The human mind is a delusion generator."
"I belong to no single nation-state. I am a citizen of the world."
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