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Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality..."
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind. Haruki Murakami
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind, Veil after veil will lift--but there must be Veil upon veil behind. Edwin Arnold
The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute.... Stephen King
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: "If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down. Emile Zola
But if I could just get som ehint, some sign..." Conchita smiles, without humor, but with great affection. "That's the point behind faith," she says. "It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't. Charles de Lint
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. Max Planck
Lee Marvin quote: "Security is two inches behind your belt, where you either keep..."
Security is two inches behind your belt, where you either keep your guts or you don't. The rest is eyewash". Lee Marvin
How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words? Italo Calvino
Ellen DeGeneres quote: "Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people..."
Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks. Ellen DeGeneres
Herman Hesse quote: "I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find..."
I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. Herman Hesse
Lives of great men all remind us. We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us. Footprints in the sands of time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not believe that the person who is trying to offer you solace lives his life effortlessly among the simple and quiet worlds that might occasionally comfort you. His life is filled with much hardship and sadness, and it remains far behind yours. But if it were otherwise, he could never have found these words. Rainer Maria Rilke
The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the discharge of a duty, common to the whole animal world, that only reason can give. This is the parental affection of humanity, and leaves instinctive natural affection far behind. Mary Wollstonecraft
Let us arise and go nowto the Isle of Manisfreeand live the true blue simple lifeof wisdom and wondermentwhere all things growstraight upaslant and singingin the yellow sunpoppies out of cowpodsthinking angels out of turds. I must arise and go nowto the Isle of Manisfreeway up behind the broken wordsand woods of Arcady. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind . . . [from] nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night. Paul Bowles

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