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Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car. Flannery O'Connor
You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime. Tom Robbins
But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream. J. B. Priestley
Lewis H. Lapham quote: "Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon..."
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. Lewis H. Lapham
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on"
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on Theodore Roosevelt
Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will. Richard Ford
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. Karl Kraus
If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Douglas Adams
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own. Bertrand Russell
Plato quote: "One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is..."
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "It was not an end, it was a beginging"
It was not an end, it was a beginging Madeleine L'Engle
Sophocles quote: "The end excuses any evil."
The end excuses any evil. Sophocles
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out. Cormac McCarthy
Franz Kafka quote: "But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the..."
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end? Franz Kafka
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. Guy de Maupassant

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