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No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone. Joseph Conrad
It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly. Jodi Picoult
There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave. Edward Abbey
There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom. Dean Koontz
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tale? concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual. Bruno Bettelheim
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugne de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen... Honore de Balzac
Norton Juster quote: "And that's why people no longer care which words they use as..."
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. Norton Juster
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. Thomas Jefferson
James Joyce quote: "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing..."
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. James Joyce
Wallace Stevens quote: "Reality is a clich from which we escape by metaphor."
Reality is a clich from which we escape by metaphor. Wallace Stevens
Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but so diluted with human error as to be more deadly than complete falsehood. Walter Martin
Ann Patchett quote: "as if the world had become a giant train station in which..."
...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice. Ann Patchett
John Knowles quote: "I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a..."
I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. John Knowles
No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God. Leo Tolstoy
Alan Watts quote: "It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages..."
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Alan Watts

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