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Man is a gregarious creature, we are told, a social being. Does that mean he is also a herd animal?...Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of one another in order to feel a sense of safety? I can't believe it! Edward Abbey
He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he’d guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining. Cormac McCarthy
Benjamin Franklin quote: "To cease to think creatively is to cease to live"
To cease to think creatively is to cease to live Benjamin Franklin
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world. Arthur Golden
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? Erich Segal
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live. Henry James
Walter Benjamin quote: "to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those..."
to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. Walter Benjamin
Maya Angelou quote: "I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as..."
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. Maya Angelou
Victor Hugo quote: "...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread."
...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. Victor Hugo
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice. George W. Bush
Scott Adams quote: "Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and..."
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there Scott Adams
The Angels don’t like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. “Yeah, I guess I am,” said one. “But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out. Hunter S. Thompson
O Lord, give each person his own personal death. / A thing that moves out of the same life he lived, / In which he had love, and intelligence, and trouble. Rainer Maria Rilke
And Yet the Books. And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet. As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn, And, touched, coddled, began to live. In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up, Tribes on the march, planets in motion. Czeslaw Milosz

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