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Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to..."
Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become. Herman Hesse
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got Lauryn Hill
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the Spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.... Lorenzo Snow
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is..."
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so. Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms. Charles M. Schulz
The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. C. S. Lewis
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it. Charles Dickens
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive..."
Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. Dorothy L. Sayers
So I have just one wish for you? the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom. Richard P. Feynman
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best..."
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't know what you may have seen fit to tell her, Venetia, but so far as I understand it you could think of nothing better to do than to beguile her with some farrago about wishing Damerel to strew rose-leaves for you to walk on!" Damerel, who had resumed his seat, had been staring moodily into the fire, but at these words he looked up quickly. "Rose-leaves?" His eyes went to Venetia's face, wickedly quizzing her. "But my dear girl, at this season?" "Be quiet, you wretch!" she said,... Georgette Heyer
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace. Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance... John Keats
Friedrich Schiller quote: "Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal..."
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it. Friedrich Schiller
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder. Chuck Palahniuk

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