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I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home. Thomas Merton
Neal Stephenson quote: "Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator,..."
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? Neal Stephenson
It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master. Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. D. Salinger quote: "Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could..."
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. J. D. Salinger
Groucho Marx quote: "A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a..."
A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this... Betty Smith
Jodi Picoult quote: "Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white...."
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. Jodi Picoult
Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie Nora Roberts
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results. Elizabeth Goudge
Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm. That could abash the little bird. That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land. And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me. Emily Dickinson
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. Mark Twain
Yevgeny Zamyatin quote: "I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of..."
I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me... my heart. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Conor Oberst quote: "I felt I was on fire with the things I could’ve told you. I..."
I felt I was on fire with the things I could’ve told you. I just assumed you eventually would ask. Conor Oberst
And what was worst of all was that *It* drew his attention to itself not in order to make him take some action but only that he should look at *It*, look it straight in the face: look at it and without doing anything, suffer inexpressibly. And to save himself from this condition Ivan Ilych looked for consolations -- new screens -- and new screens were found and for a while seemed to save him, but then they immediately fell to pieces or rather became transparent, as if *It* penetrated them and... Leo Tolstoy
What could I do? My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep and hills, sea and fish; if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she’d either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes. But most likely, she’d do what most people do when confronted with something they don’t understand: Panic. Jeanette Winterson

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