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Why is it that we want so badly to memorialise ourselves? Even while we're still alive. we wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. we put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. what do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. we... Margaret Atwood
Henrik Ibsen quote: "Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of..."
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. Henrik Ibsen
Herman Hesse quote: "Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are..."
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty. Herman Hesse
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. Aldous Huxley
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder. Herman Hesse
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object. Gilles Deleuze
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. Michel Foucault
XII sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near. Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama. Dorothy Allison
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you..."
Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! Fyodor Dostoevsky
The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It's like you have a little BMW - you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it's just going 110. But if you see guys driving a ferrari or a lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in... Arnold Schwarzenegger
Giacomo Casanova quote: "The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to..."
The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth. Giacomo Casanova
John Fowles quote: "To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so..."
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life. Vincent Price
As the sun and each atom of ether is a shphere complete in itself, yet at the same time only a part of a whole too vast for man to comprehend, so each individual bears within himself his own purpose, yet bears it ot serve a general purpose unfathomable to man. Leo Tolstoy

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