Which Quotes (page 481)

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• life
• been
• fill

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened. Michel de Montaigne

• growing up
• tiger
• liking

It was somehow frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. George Orwell

• passion
• selective
• passionately

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion. Cyril Connolly

• feeling
• she
• continuous

As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality... and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination. Jane Austen

• him
• war
• die

The Archangel took his role of fucker seriously. It made him sing the Marseillaise, for now he was proud of being a Frenchman and a Gallic cock, of which only males are proud. Then he died in the war. Jean Genet

• him
• look
• choices

The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which. Joyce Cary

• freedom
• thoughts
• time

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective? (1923) John Gresham Machen

• life
• surprise
• ridiculously

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life Marcus Aurelius

• fitness
• to live
• die

A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live. Martin Luther King jr.

• dead
• problems
• you

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead! Jonathan Franzen

• may
• manly
• kindness

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can old man,? you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind? I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. Henry David Thoreau

• explode
• he
• arms

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. Douglas Adams

• enough
• science
• manly

What is reasoning? It is the result of doing away with the vital distinction which separates subjectivity and objectivity. As a form of abstract thought reasoning is not profoundly dialectical enough; as an opinion and a conviction it lacks full-blooded individuality. But where mere scope is concerned, reasoning has all the apparent advantage; for a thinker can encompass his science, a man can have an opinion upon a particular subject and a conviction as a result of a certain view of life,... Soren Kierkegaard

• miracle
• heart
• justice

it was not a matter of miracles. It was not an expectation of miracles, frivolous in its impatience. Alyosha did not need miracles then for the triumph of certain convictions (it was not that at all), nor so that some sort of former, preconceived idea would quickly triumph over another...Again, it was not miracles he needed, but only a "higher justice," which, as he believed, had been violated--it was this that wounded his heart so cruelly and suddenly...it was justice, justice he thirsted... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• party
• existing
• presenting

Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. George Orwell