Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Lao Tzu
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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
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The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.
Clint Eastwood
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As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.
Henry Rollins
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
Pope Francis
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