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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by come chance manage to evade the result of their folly. W. Somerset Maugham
For at the height of pleasure he had experienced a revelation that he could not believe, that he even refused to admit, which was that his illusory love for Fermina Daza could be replaced by an earthly passion. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mr. Earbass has rashly been skimming through the early chapters, which he had not looked at for months, and now sees TUH for what it is. Dreadful, dreadful, DREADFUL. He must be mad to go on enduring the unexquisite agony of writing when it all turns out drivel. Mad. Why didn't he become a spy? How does one become one? He will burn the MS. Why is there no fire? Why aren't there the makings of one? How did he get in the unused room on the third floor? Edward Gorey
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense ofthe community should govern the conduct of those to whom theyintrust the management of their affairs; but it does not requirean unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passionor to every transient impulse which the people may receive fromthe arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray theirinterests. Alexander Hamilton
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound"
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Henry David Thoreau quote: "This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space."
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau quote: "All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle..."
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Henry David Thoreau
Marcus Aurelius quote: "Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and..."
Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? Marcus Aurelius
Mark Twain quote: "You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and..."
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. Mark Twain
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress. Mahatma Gandhi
So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for. George Leigh Mallory
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless. David Herbert Lawrence
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have..."
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model. Nikos Kazantzakis
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong. Richard Wright

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