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Emile M. Cioran quote: "Ever since I was born”—that since has a resonance so dreadful..."

Ever since I was born”—that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable.

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However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven’t it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born. William James
I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. Franka Potente
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. Doris Lessing
Observe," said the Director triumphantly, "observe." Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks—already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined in nature is powerless to put asunder. Aldous Huxley
Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. Og Mandino
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people. Kimbra
There,' said Wednesday, 'is one who "does not have the faith and will not have the fun". Chesterton. Pagan indeed. So. Shall we go out onto the street, Easter my dear, and repeat the exercise? Find out how many passers-by know that their Easter festival takes its name from Eostre of the Dawn? Let's see - I have it. We shall ask a hundred people. For every one that knows the truth, you may cut off one of my fingers, and when I run out of them, toes; for every twenty who don't know you spend a... Neil Gaiman
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it. Terry Prachett
Patton Oswalt quote: "It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic..."
It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now. Patton Oswalt
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it. Leo Tolstoy
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "To complain that I could only be married once was like..."
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. Carl Sandburg
The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes. Suzanne Collins
We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse. George Galloway
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags..."
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca