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I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do you look thousands of years into the future? Do you measure what's happening to you now by what may matter a thousand years hence? I was stumbling and lurching, groping and from time to time drowning, as any man might. Anne Rice
John Donne quote: "Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins..."
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall. John Donne
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. Richard Dawkins
Christianity sedulously fosters, and in a sense permanently satisfies, man's craving for mental dissatisfaction by offering him the comfort of a crucified God. Michael Polanyi
What was the point of having a man if all he could do was turn his back and sleep? Not that she wanted him to do anything else, but in a way it was an insult. The turned back reminded her of all the various backs that had not been turned. Which was a depressing thought, because it meant she was beginning to live in the past. Backs That Were Never Turned. The Reminisces of Maria Delaney...No, it was not depressing. It was funny. Daphne du Maurier
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common. Roland Barthes
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even..."
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense."Or else a fool. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm a poor man, your majesty," the Hatter began in a weak voice, "and I hadn't but just begun my tea, not more than a week or so, and what with the bread and butter so thin - and the twinkling of the tea-"The twinkling of what?" asked the King."It began with the tea," the Hatter said."Of course twinkling begins with a T!" said the King. "Do you take me for a dunce? Lewis Carroll
Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him."Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her."It takes a man with real heart" Clive Barker
Joseph Conrad quote: "The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest"
The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest Joseph Conrad
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright
Jane Austen quote: "His temper might perhaps be a little soured [...]'Mr. Palmer..."
His temper might perhaps be a little soured [...]'Mr. Palmer is just the kind of man I like, Jane Austen
God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God Aiden Wilson Tozer
The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art... Isak Dinesen
And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrafice Boris Pasternak

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