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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
Emily Dickinson

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“It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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''The visage of being that shows itself in war is fixed in the concept of totality, which dominates Western philosophy. Individuals are reduced to being bearers of forces that command them unbeknown to themselves. The meaning of individuals (invisible outside of this totality) is derived from the totality. The unicity of each present is incessantly sacrificed to a future appealed to bring forth its objective being.''
Emmanuel Levinas

Please note that 51 is the picture of a picture, focused on a detail - by reframing.
Source: AP/Anja Niedringhaus Original picture 28/32

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"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
Martin Buber

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''I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.''
Arthur Rimbaud

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''You were born with wings.Why prefer to crawl through life?''
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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''He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.''
Michel de Montaigne

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"This mere woolgathering; this sitting in a chair day in, day out, with a cigarette and a sheet of paper and a pen and an ink pot.''
Virginia Woolf

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''If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.''
Emily Dickinson

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“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”
Nazim Hikmet

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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza

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“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Virginia Woolf

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"And my identity card is number fifty thousand..."
Mahmoud Darwish

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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Pablo Neruda

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"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Warren Buffett

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“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
Virginia Woolf

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“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
Charlie Parker

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“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”
Jacques Prévert

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"Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise."

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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford

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“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is (...) at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”
Virginia Woolf

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"What if the book were only infinite memory of A word lacking?"
Edmond Jabes

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“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.”
Jean Genet

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"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."
Emma Goldman

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"... the 'middle class' is, in its very 'real' existence, the embodied lie, the denial of antagonism - in psychoanalytic terms, the 'middle class' is a fetish, the impossible intersection of left and right which, by expelling both poles of the antagonism into the position of antisocial 'extremes' which corrode the healthy social body (multinational corporations and intruding immigrants), presents itself as the neutral common ground of Society."
Slavoj Zizek