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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die. Erich Fromm
Joseph Heller quote: "They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to..."
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. Joseph Heller
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. Anne Rice
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. E. M. Forster
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it. Neil Gaiman
William S. Burroughs quote: "Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns..."
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. William S. Burroughs
... the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i. e., share it with others? Brenda Ueland
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear. H. P. Lovecraft
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to..."
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. Gustave Flaubert
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name. Lois McMaster Bujold
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of the seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream. Fernando Pessoa
Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about. Ellen DeGeneres
Haruki Murakami quote: "People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of..."
People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Haruki Murakami
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. Brenda Ueland
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. Herman Hesse

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