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Roald Dahl quote: "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination...."
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be. Roald Dahl
A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise. Bernard Malamud
I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished. Who raised it up so many times? In what houses Of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live? Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished Did the masons go? Great Rome Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even... Bertolt Brecht
Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this battle or that was fought, when a general was born, or even when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this is very... Adolf Hitler
Wendell Berry quote: "Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking..."
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life. Wendell Berry
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy. Richard Bach
That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything. Jeffrey Eugenides
Milan Kundera quote: "because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion...."
because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like musicpg 52 Milan Kundera
Paulo Coelho quote: "Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and..."
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. Paulo Coelho
Dean Koontz quote: "Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging..."
Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. Dean Koontz
But to Ezail, gifted with acceptance, it was only another facet of the riotos marvel of the earth. For all was marvelous there, was and is still, but humanity becomes innured to repetitive amazements - that the sun may rise, that a tiny seed may become a tree or a man, that life, coming from nowhere, sets us to moving like clockwork, and going out again leaves us to sleep. Or else, as then, takes us away with it, who knows? But we are used to it all, dawn and growth, living and dying. It... Tanith Lee
Spike Milligan quote: "With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off..."
With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate. Spike Milligan
There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross. Michael Ondaatje
To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps. Albert Camus

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