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For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not,... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now. Clive Barker
Jean Anouilh quote: "Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those..."
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. Jean Anouilh
Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. Charles Dickens
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. Marquis de Sade
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all. Dan Millman
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately, almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does. Sherwood Anderson
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one..."
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. Zora Neale Hurston
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument. Robert A. Heinlein
Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance. Jack Kerouac
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. Gertrude Stein
I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment... Jean-Paul Sartre
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than..."
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diana Ross quote: "I can be a better me than anyone can."
I can be a better me than anyone can. Diana Ross

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