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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself touse drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. Franz Kafka
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I will endeavor to clarify my statement," said the Thing. A few lights flashed."Jolly good," said Masklin."Big-fella Store him go Bang along plenty soon enough chop-chop?" said the Thing, hopefully. The nomes watched one another's faces. There didn't seem to be any light dawning. The Thing cleared it's throat again. "Do you know the meaning of the word 'destroyed'?" it said."Oh, yes," said Dorcas."That's what is going to happen to the Store. In twenty-one days. Terry Prachett
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan Watts
I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's life consists in proving to himself every minute that he's a man and not a piano key. And man will keep proving it and paying for it with his own skin; he will turn into a troglodyte if need be. And, since this is so, I cannot help rejoicing that things are still the way they are and that, for the time being, nobody knows worth a damn what determines our desires. Fyodor Dostoevsky
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident. Clive Barker
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come. Pericles
He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world. Victor Hugo
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where..."
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze. P. J. O'Rourke
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans..."
Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. Georgia O'Keeffe
The coops were finished. They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in deep thought, as who should say: "Now what in the world have we struck here?" But they were coops, within the meaning of the act, and we induced the hens to become tenants. P. G. Wodehouse
Jacques Barzun quote: "First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best..."
First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word. Jacques Barzun
Vaclav Havel quote: "The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of..."
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. Vaclav Havel

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