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A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be. Christopher Isherwood
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction. James Baldwin
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "what a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body..."
what a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! David Herbert Lawrence
When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never had a long period of being happy, Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time, When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down . I found when I was a child that... Jean Rhys
Emiliano Zapata quote: "I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees"
I would rather die on my feet then live on my knees Emiliano Zapata
Aldous Huxley quote: "Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was..."
Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Aldous Huxley
We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness. Michel Foucault
My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off" (31). James Thurber
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. Jane Austen
Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. Maya Angelou
What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world. Salman Rushdie
John Keats quote: "O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!"
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts! John Keats
Audrey Hepburn quote: "As a matter of fact, I rather feellike expressing myself now."
As a matter of fact, I rather feellike expressing myself now. Audrey Hepburn
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. Jim Harrison
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. Viktor E. Frankl

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