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we can't afford to do anyone harmbecause we owe them our liveseach breath is recycled from someone else's lungsour enemies are the very air in disguiseyou can talk a great philosophybut if you can't be kind to peopleevery dayit doesn't mean that much to meit's the little things you dothe little things you sayit's the love you give along the way Ani DiFranco
for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times. Hermann Broch
Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts. John Steinbeck
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. C. S. Lewis
Vicki Baum quote: "There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!"
There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them! Vicki Baum
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. Henry James
Anne Rice quote: "We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give..."
We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. Anne Rice
Jane Austen quote: "There are persons who the more you do for them, the less they..."
There are persons who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen
Otis Criblecoblis quote: "It is funnier to bend things than to break them."
It is funnier to bend things than to break them. Otis Criblecoblis
Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums. Terry Prachett
this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from... Neal Stephenson
William Butler Yeats quote: "...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness."
...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. William Butler Yeats
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them. Philip K. Dick
Carl Jung quote: "Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have..."
Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. Carl Jung
...a book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water.Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, They shiver in the wind. Clumsy, crude human fingers leave bruises on them that'll never fade! Never!Some people touch books without washing their hands!Some underline things in ink!Some even tear pages out! Tatyana Tolstaya

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