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Narziss, I am guilty of having passed rash judgement on you. I had thought you proud, and perhaps I did you an injustice. You are much alone, brother; you have many to admire you, but no friends. I wished to find the pretext to chide you a little. But I find none. I wanted to see you as disobedient as young men of your age so easily are. But you never disobey. Sometimes Narziss, you make me uneasy. Herman Hesse
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into..."
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) Frances Hodgson Burnett
Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind. Suzanne Collins
You think God looks out for people?...I do. Way the world is. Somebody can wake up and sneeze somewhere in Arkansas or some damn place and before you're done there's wars and ruination and all hell. You don't know what's goin to happen. I'd say He's just about go to. I don't believe we'd make it a day otherwise. Cormac McCarthy
Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no matter what they are, no matter what they do, then those of us who love particular people for particular reasons had better find ourselves a new word." He looked at an oil painting of his deceased wife. "For instance- I loved her more than I love our garbage collector, which makes me guilty of the most unspeakable of modern crimes: Dis-crim-i-nay-tion. Kurt Vonnegut
Norman Mailer quote: "Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for..."
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. Norman Mailer
I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy. Oscar Wilde
David Hume quote: "A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal..."
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion David Hume
Ivan Illich quote: "School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that..."
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Ivan Illich
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks..."
Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. Arthur Conan Doyle
Have we been guilty of declaring, ‘I’ve been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step—tomorrow’? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today. Thomas S. Monson
I work all day, and get half drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Philip Larkin
There's a difference between writing for a living and writing forlife. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays Toni Morrison
The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket! Arthur Golden
Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic. Carrie Fisher

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