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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand. Marcel Proust
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make. The billows smooth and bright--And this was odd, because it was. The middle of the night. Lewis Carroll
Mario Puzo quote: "Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. Mario Puzo
Ayn Rand quote: "Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of..."
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. Ayn Rand
The general rule which we have pretty much established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are 'real' while the spiritual elements are 'subjective'; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist. C. S. Lewis
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them;... William Kingdon Clifford
Terplash, & what difference make! One little white spark of light! Hair woven hands Penelope seaboat smeller Is Virgin you trying to fathom me Tiresome old sea, aint you sick & tired of all of this merde? this incessant boom boom & sand walk Jack Kerouac
I tried to think about what he had asked me to do, to step so far beyond myself. I found it difficult to think about. It was as if it hung over me, this huge choice I must make, this future I could not imagine. Ursula K. Le Guin
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. Friedrich Nietzsche
...'You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody. Joseph Heller
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are... Germaine Greer
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it. Aldous Huxley
Lauryn Hill quote: "Tomorrow is always another day to make things right."
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right. Lauryn Hill
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too..."
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeitof our own behavior,--we make guilty of ourdisasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: asif we were villains by necessity; fools byheavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, andtreachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience ofplanetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasionof whoremaster man, to lay his... William Shakespeare

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