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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. Edward Abbey
In times like these, when their fat little comforts are threatened, you may be sure that science is the first thing men will sacrifice. Ayn Rand
The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not. Aleister Crowley
None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should any be in doubt about what is expected of us … We have been and continue to be taught God’s laws. Despite what you may see or hear elsewhere, these laws are unchanging. Thomas S. Monson
Jane Austen quote: "When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am..."
When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane Austen
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship. Mary Wollstonecraft
The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story about the scarlet letter which we might readily work up into a terrific legend. They averred, that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth, tinged in an earthly dye-pot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight, whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the night-time. And we must needs say, it seared Hester's bosom so deeply,... Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Austen quote: "A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and..."
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. Jane Austen
Meryl Streep quote: "I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I..."
I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me. Meryl Streep
Samuel Beckett quote: "I am still alive then. That may come in useful."
I am still alive then. That may come in useful. Samuel Beckett
I am aware of many things being quite as important as good writing and good reading; but in all things it is wiser to go directly to the quiddity, to the text, to the source, to the essence—and only then evolve whatever theories may tempt the philosopher, or the historian, or merely please the spirit of the day. Readers are born free and ought to remain free. Vladimir Nabokov
Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves us, not a false imaging, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, - loves, not the man that we are, but the angel we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that? James Joyce
The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit,... Lawrence Durrell
The wicked people were gone, but fear remained. Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief, and even doubt; but as long as he clings to life the cannot destroy fear: the fear, subtle, indestructible, and terrible, that pervades his being; that tinges his thoughts; that lurks in his heart; what watches on his lips the struggle of his last breath. Joseph Conrad

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