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I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks, and then at once thinks something else. I cannot think something else, I think one thing all my life. God has tormented me all my life. Fyodor Dostoevsky
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories. Susan Sontag
Immanuel Kant quote: "How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In..."
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. Immanuel Kant
Norman Maclean quote: "life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had..."
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true. Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes the newer kids who won’t even let him near them come in and set the resistance on the shoulder-pull at a weight greater than their own weight. The guru on the towel dispenser just sits there and smiles and doesn’t say anything. They hunker, then, and grimace, and try to pull the bar down, but, like, lo: the overweighted shoulder-pull becomes a chin-up. Up they go, their own bodies, toward the bar they’re trying to pull down. Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of... David Foster Wallace
I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the other. I have never been content with the current explanation that they were my feet. Gilbert K. Chesterton
John Steinbeck quote: "And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we..."
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely. John Steinbeck
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off. Louisa May Alcott
Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight?" Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. "And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe doglike behind thy parapet and yap at thy betters?" "Oh, that was very good," Barak said admiringly. David Eddings
Richard Armour quote: "Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a..."
Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll. Richard Armour
Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child tender. Truman Capote
We have fallen in the dreams the ever-livingBreathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. William Butler Yeats
If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class. Augusten Burroughs
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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