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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is. Eugene Ionesco
He might dance down the street on his way to work, gaze into the eyes of a complete stranger and speak of love at first sight, or defend an apparently absurd idea. Warriors of light allow themselves days like these. He is not afraid to weep over ancient sorrows or feel joy at new discoveries. When he feels that the moment has arrived, he drops everything and goes off on some long-dreamed-of adventure. When he realises that he can do no more, he abandons the fight, but never blames himself for... Paulo Coelho
Woody Allen quote: "If God does exist, he's an underachiever."
If God does exist, he's an underachiever. Woody Allen
We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat. Henri Nouwen
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream. Anais Nin
Ozzy Osbourne quote: "It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people."
It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people. Ozzy Osbourne
Sex does not enrich or deepen a relationship, it permanently cheapens and destabilises one. Everyone I know who is unfortunate enough to have a sex-mate, joy-partner, bed-friend, love-chum, call them what you will finds that--after a week or two of long blissful afternoons of making the beast with two backs, or the beast with one back and a funny shaped middle or the beast with legs splayed in the air and arms gripping the sides of the mattress--the day dawns when Partner A is keen for more... Stephen Fry
Margaret Atwood quote: "Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes..."
Which does a man prefer? Bacon and eggs, or worship? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depending how hungry he is. Margaret Atwood
Henry David Thoreau quote: "What avails it that another loves you, if he does not..."
What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse. Henry David Thoreau
Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and could not come by in any other way. C. S. Lewis
Extreme intelligence is accused of being as foolish as extreme lack of it; only moderation is good. The majority have laid this down and attack anyone who deviates from it towards any extreme whatever. I am not going to be awkward, I readily consent to being put in the middle and refuse to be at the bottom end, not because it is the bottom but because it is the end, for I should refuse just as much to be put at the top. It is deserting humanity to desert the middle way. The greatness of... Blaise Pascal
Nipsey Russell quote: "Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If..."
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean? Nipsey Russell
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed. Bell Hooks
Leo Tolstoy quote: "The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and..."
The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of which he does not see the results. Leo Tolstoy
For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come. John Locke

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