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A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts. Thomas Merton
That’s the case with most vampires, no matter who says otherwise. Beauty carries us to our doom. Or, to put it more accurately, we are made immortal by those who cannot sever themselves from our charms. Anne Rice
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Carl Sagan
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. Mark Twain
Evan Esar quote: "Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person..."
Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us. Evan Esar
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune. Charles Dickens
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The consequences of our actions seize us by the hair, very..."
The consequences of our actions seize us by the hair, very indifferent to the fact that we have meanwhile "reformed. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am... Patrick Henry
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be..."
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns. Naguib Mahfouz
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. Jacques Derrida
Nora Roberts quote: "The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're..."
The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being. Nora Roberts
without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night. Zelda Fitzgerald
It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you? Stephenie Meyer
the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black. Sue Monk Kidd
Neal Stephenson quote: "So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the..."
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? Neal Stephenson

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