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• I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

  J. Robbins

  Might, Kind, Miles

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Doe, Distinction

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book Thirteen”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

  David Foster Wallace

  Keys, Boredom, Sides

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• If you want to learn anything, learn trust - nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help - learn trust. If you don't feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help - learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Giving, Want

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• Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Answers, Possibility

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The road to infinity”, Doubleday Books

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• I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Believe, Chaos

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• Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fall, Night, Essence

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, "A Factless Autobiography", number 3, translation by Richard Zenith, 1982.

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• After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.

  Mary Balogh

  Love You, Heart, Years

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• To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Men, Vanity

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• One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.

  Banksy

  Original Thought, Originals

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• Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

  Haruki Murakami

  Car, Gone, World

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• Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Regret, Feet, Light

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• The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

  James Frey

  Book, Years, Two

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• It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

  Lois Lowry

  Memories

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Doors

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• We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.

  Ai Yazawa

  Writing, Bye, Would Be

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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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• Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Way, Used, Conclusion

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.34, Princeton University Press

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• The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

  Leonard Baskin

  Education, Art, Believe

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• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Winning, Awards, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

  Scarlett Thomas

  Meaningful, Way, Normal

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• If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

  Rob Morrow

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Stress, Taken, Light

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• but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Goodness, Minutes, Whole Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.696, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

  John Steinbeck

  Feelings, Doe, Action

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.107, Penguin

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