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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race. Victor Hugo
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now? and we're going to try our... Sinclair Lewis
But I must admit I didnt like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: lets turn on the gas at once. And you dont turn it on. Simone de Beauvoir
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and..."
Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you. Laurell K. Hamilton
Albert Einstein quote: "Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they..."
Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want. Albert Einstein
The first week of August was a consolatiion, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out, the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. Sue Monk Kidd
Jose Rizal quote: "Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime..."
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience. Jose Rizal
That 99 of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves that 99 of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them and then weirdly that if they stop to think about it that 100 of the things they spend 99 of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences are never good. Then that this connects interestingly with the early-sobriety urge to pray for the literal loss of... David Foster Wallace
What happens if you need a diplomat who can also practice philosophy fight with a lightsaber and levitate small objects Who else are you going to call but us Mara Walter Jon Williams
Victor Hugo quote: "A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it..."
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. Victor Hugo
Orson Scott Card quote: "You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the..."
You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead. Orson Scott Card
Tina Fey quote: "You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide,..."
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. Tina Fey
I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in elementary school at the time - fifth or sixth grade - but I made up my mind once and for all? Haruki Murakami
The a hermit , who visited the city once a year , came forth and said, speak to us of pleasure. Go to your fields and your gardens , and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower. But it is also the plesure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee . For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life , And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love , And to both bee and flower , the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. Khalil Gibran
Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you're Father Christmas! The Doctor: Who says I'm not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve? Rose: [shocked] What? The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me anything; I'm on fire! Steven Moffat

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