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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said... Voltaire
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset..."
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. Arthur Schopenhauer
When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and head of the nail were infinitely big, if would be just the same; the point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of the soul, and social degradation all at the same time, is a nail whose point is... Simone Weil
I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished myself and shot myself through the heart. But never, never have I ceased to love that one, and even on the night I parted from him I loved him perhaps more poignantly than ever. We can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order to love. I want and thirst this very minute to kiss... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bono quote: "The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold..."
The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well. Bono
Thomas Moore quote: "Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and..."
Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it. Thomas Moore
But then, the sky! Blue, untainted by a single cloud (the Ancientes had such barbarous tastes given that their poets could have been inspired by such stupid, sloppy, silly-lingering clumps of vapour). I love - and i'm certain that i'm not mistaken if i say we love - skies like this, sterile and flawless! On days like these, the whole world is blown from the same shatterproof, everlasting glass as the glass of the Green Wall and of all our structures. On days like these, you can see to the... Yevgeny Zamyatin
Eric Carle quote: "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of..."
One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar. Eric Carle
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men. Thomas Merton
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. Malcolm Gladwell
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. Fyodor Dostoevsky
A family man from Siberia. As a father was very inferior. But one operation. Revised the situation. And now he's Mother Superior Spike Milligan
Desmond Tutu quote: "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe..."
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes. Desmond Tutu
David Sedaris quote: "At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I..."
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. David Sedaris
This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow. Richard Brautigan

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