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• self
• time
• angel

At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. Walker Percy

• lies
• dirty
• lied

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie. Lenny Bruce

• life
• feeling
• philosophy

I intend to scream, shout, race the engine, call when I feel like it, throw tantrums in Bloomingdale's if I feel like it and confess intimate details about my life to complete strangers. I intend to do what I want to do and be whom I want to be and answer only to myself: that is, quite simply, the bitch philosophy... Elizabeth Wurtzel

• different
• god
• appearance

My gods or your gods, who know which are stronger?' That's why we honor them all - just in case. There are more cultures even than Gods in the Eight Worlds, and among them you'll find people who are willing to kill you, or each other, over any difference in belief or lifestyle or physical appearance you can imagine - and some you can't. They all think they're right. There's no Truth, Tammis, only differences of opinion. Joan D. Vinge

• moving
• hero
• world

The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

• political
• purpose
• developer

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. Albert Einstein

• images
• image
• imaging

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do. Marquis de Sade

• feeling
• food
• science

A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if that it what it is, though why organic farmers should feel defensive about it is itself a mystery, a relic, perhaps, of our fetishism of science as the only credible tool with which to approach nature. ... The peasant rice farmer who introduces ducks and fish to his paddy may not understand all the symbiotic relationships he's put in play--that the ducks and... Michael Pollan

• trying
• lack
• lacking

He’d tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex. Mark Haddon

• good man
• bad
• manly

the only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong, whether it is what a good man does or a bad man Plato

• popular
• earth
• fame

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Mark Twain

• work
• history
• little

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. John Steinbeck

• love
• god
• he

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love(when God whisper your name) Max Lucado

• moments
• true
• sharing

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool. Cameron Crowe

• real
• writing
• powerful

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness. Orhan Pamuk