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Nothing is free. Everything has to be payed for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every life, a death. Even your music, of which we have heard so much, that had to be payed for. Your wife was the payment for your music. Hell is now satisfied. Ted Hughes
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. Frank Herbert
The officious swagger in her gait might have been some flavor of self-possession or the cool skedaddle of a shoplifter making for the door. In either case, the streamer of toilet paper that trailed from the waistband of her tiny skirt like the banner of an advertising airplane pretty much spoiled the effect. Michael Chabon
When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it. Charles Spurgeon
With some justice, I think, I could claim that it is all right as a beginning to leave a principle in a somewhat fuzzy state; the primary question is whether something like it will do. This claim, however, would meet a frosty reception from those many proponents of another principle scrutinized in the next chapter, if they knew how much harder I shall be on their principle than I am here on mine. Fortunately, they don't know that yet. Robert Nozick
Inasmuch as every judge some day ends up as a penitent, one had to travel the road in the opposite direction and practice the profession of penitent to be able to end up as a judge. Albert Camus
This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does... Regina Spektor
Paul Auster quote: "Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are..."
Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. Paul Auster
An odd by-product of my loss is that I’m aware of being an embarrassment to everyone I meet. At work, at the club, in the street, I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they’ll ‘say something about it’ or not. I hate it if they do, and if they don’t. Some funk it altogether. R. has been avoiding me for a week. I like best the well brought-up young men, almost boys, who walk up to me as if I were a dentist, turn very red, get it over, and then edge away to the... C. S. Lewis
The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal. Christopher Hitchens
When the leeches have sucked enough blood, one simply has to sprinkle some salt on their backs and they fall off? But you, my friend, how can I get rid of you? Your despairing cousin Heinrich Heine
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind. Terence McKenna
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"Well my mum's name is Helen..."Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human? C. S. Lewis
I'd Begin to imagine my life in a foreign country, some faraway land where, if things went wrong, i could always blame somebody else, saying I'd never wanted to live there in the first place. David Sedaris
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? Aldo Leopold

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