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Heraclitus quote: "It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep."
It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep. Heraclitus
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible. Stephen Hawking
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered. Albert Camus
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever. Kurt Vonnegut
I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed. Stephenie Meyer
That work was what appealed to him most about their conversations. Tom liked having to think fast, and he found it invigoratingto push his mind in unaccustomed directions for a change, to be forced to stay on his toes. Paul Auster
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "the world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men..."
the world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men like you left. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world Lady Gaga
I don't know how to describe the magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns without making it sound like a cartoon or a drug trip or a cartoon of a drug trip. The only thing I can say is that it is one of those dear places that make you love the world. Sarah Vowell
Sylvia Plath quote: "I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down..."
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. Sylvia Plath
Tennessee Williams quote: "Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much..."
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart Tennessee Williams
Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I think it was, every year...The palm tree line...I call it the coffee line, the strong black coffee line...It's rising like mercury in a thermometer, this palm tree line, this strong coffee line, this scandal line, rising up throughout Italy and already passed Rome... Leonardo Sciascia
Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands.'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him. Haruki Murakami
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran. Lloyd Alexander
[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage. Nick Hornby

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