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Alain Badiou quote: "Those who have nothing have only their discipline."
Those who have nothing have only their discipline. Alain Badiou
She is not what I envied in high school, the popular girl. She is something I'm not even sure existed then, the sure-footed girl. She gives the impression of being completely herself, and only a part of that impression is false. A. Whitney Brown
John Irving quote: "Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been..."
Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake. John Irving
I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him something substantial. Mark Twain
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth..."
A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice. W. Somerset Maugham
Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of... Bill Bryson
The Archangel took his role of fucker seriously. It made him sing the Marseillaise, for now he was proud of being a Frenchman and a Gallic cock, of which only males are proud. Then he died in the war. Jean Genet
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. Virginia Woolf
It's only thunder." "It just startled me," she said, her eyes on his. "I'm not afraid of storms.' "Let's see." Still, he moved slowly, taking his time as much to prolong this new moment as to gauge her reaction. He laid his hands on her hips as the rain beat and splashed, sliding them up her body, smooth and easy as he lowered his head, paused-one long breath-then fit his mouth to hers. Nora Roberts
Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of God would be no more suitable than the burning of incense, the lighting of lamps, and the restoration of the other shadows of the law. The Papists therefore, have foolishly borrowed, this, as well as many other things, from the Jews. Men who are fond of outward pomp may delight in that noise; but the simplicity which God recommends to us by the apostles is far more pleasing to him. Paul allows us to bless God in the public assembly of the... John Calvin
Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the peculiar weight of actuality? "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Graham Swift
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you..."
Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead! Jonathan Franzen
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force of life pushing up from inside. This was the way Natasha's wound healed. She thought her life was over. But suddenly her love for her mother showed her that the essence of life - love - was still alive in her. Love... Leo Tolstoy
A successful college president once complained to me, I'm so busy that I'm going to have to get a helicopter! Well, I answered, you'll be ahead so long as you're the only president who has one. But don't get it. Everyone will expect more out of you. Alan Watts
Kim Mathers quote: "I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what..."
I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like. Kim Mathers

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