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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression... John Stuart Mill
I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea. Shunryu Suzuki
I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be your poet. I shall eat my own poem, and that will be my food. Or do you find me unworthy? Just as a temple dancer dances to the honor of the god Gudutl, so I have consecrated myself to your service; light, thinly clad, limber, unarmed, I renounce everything. I own nothing; I desire to own nothing; I love nothing; I have nothing to lose-but have I not thereby become more worthy of you, you who... Soren Kierkegaard
Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing. Rainer Maria Rilke
Andrew Marvell quote: "My vegetable love will grow. Vaster than empires, and more slow."
My vegetable love will grow. Vaster than empires, and more slow. Andrew Marvell
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "Stop looking for the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight."
Stop looking for the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Gordon B. Hinckley
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice. Maurice felt uneasy."Then you understand - without me saying more - "How do you mean?"Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you. E. M. Forster
Jodi Picoult quote: "I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I..."
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names. Jodi Picoult
If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive, relating to form and colour, and were used to present the objects under consideration, not the young explorer's emotions. Yet through this austerity one felt the kindling imagination, the ardour and excitement of the boy, like the vibration in a voice when the speaker strives to conceal his emotion by using only the conventional phrases. Willa Cather
Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures. Henry James
A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Thomas Mann quote: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it..."
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
Leo Tolstoy quote: "And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about..."
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. Leo Tolstoy
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get. Sylvia Plath

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