"i'm going to walk to the bridge. if one person smiles at me on the way, i won't jump."
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"i opened the book, picking a passage at random, and came across a tale about alexander the great. the emperor, as the story went, received as a gift some wondrous glass dishes. he liked the gifts very much, but smashed them all nonetheless. "why? are they not beautiful?" he was asked. "precisely because of that," he answered. "they are so beautiful that it would be hard for me to lose them. and with time they would break, one by one. and i would be sorrier than i am now."
the tale was naive but it still astonished me. its lesson was bitter: one should renounce everything he might ever begin to love, because loss and disappointment are inevitable. we must renounce love in order not to lose i…
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(see: animal farm)
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--spoiler--
who controls the past controls the future.
who controls the present controls the past.
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war is peace.
freedom is slavery.
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we do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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favorite quotes
when you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. but if you listen, you may learn something new.
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