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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support. Leo Tolstoy
Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? James Clavell
The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given. Joseph Ratzinger
Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life. Erich Fromm
Fight only in direst need. Not for lust or petty greed. Honor those that do give birth. Respect them well for their full worth Anne McCaffrey
There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening. David Bohm
Tom Robbins quote: "We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake...."
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Tom Robbins
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep. Flann O'Brien
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it. Jane Austen
I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period). Sarah Vowell
Margaret Atwood quote: "You can think clearly only with your clothes on."
You can think clearly only with your clothes on. Margaret Atwood
I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"she lights her cigarette withmy lighter and looks at methrough the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think Ican ever pay that price again. Charles Bukowski
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "A good writer has not only his own mind but the minds of his..."
A good writer has not only his own mind but the minds of his friends as well. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Isaac Asimov

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