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Time doesn't fly, it steals. Like some skilled pickpocket or magician, it gets you to look the other way and when you do, it ruthlessly steals your essential things--memories, great moments that end much too soon, the lives of those you love. It knows how to trick you and then steal you blind.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Quelli che ci amano possono essere divisi in due categorie: chi ci capisce e chi ci perdona i nostri peggiori peccati. Raramente riusciamo a trovare una persona capace di entrambe le cose.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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One splendid summer afternoon Kaspar realized he had never been happier in his life or both of his lives, past and present. Not fireworks-orgasms-and-champagne happy, but on waking in the morning he was glad almost every single day to be exactly where he was. He had never before experienced the feeling of genuine, constant well-being and it was a true revelation. The longer the satisfaction continued, the less he thought about his previous ..
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In the end, each of us has only one story to tell. It takes a lifetime to live that story but sometimes less than an hour to tell it. The
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Here's something you must know and don't forget it - animals never lie. They don't like, they don't put on disguises, and they are always true to what they are. That's why you can trust them.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Listening to him, I realized how lucky I was not to have had a wonderful childhood. Those who do, or those who peak in their early years, have only that remembered joy or strength to tide them over the rest of their lives. Nothing could ever be as good as that time; for them nothing ever is.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Paru let ia kollektsioniroval avtoruchki. Odnazhdy na bloshinom rynke vo Frantsii ia uvidel, kak kakoi-to chelovek peredo mnoi vzial s lotka odnu ruchku i stal rassmatrivat'. Po shestiugol'noi zvezde na kolpachke ia srazu ponial, chto eto "monblan". Staryi "monblan". Ia zamer kak vkopannyi i nachal povtoriat' pro sebia: "POLOZhI EE, NE POKUPAI!" No tshchetno - chelovek prigliadyvalsia k nei vse vnimatel'nei. Togda mne zakhotelos', chtoby on..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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A wish is a dream come true. Since dreams are never clear, they invariably disappoint.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Pilot had never seen this particular ghost before. Head resting on paws, he mildly wondered what it was doing here. Dogs see ghosts about as often as people see cats. They're there but they're no big deal.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I've noticed most people are at their best during the day, in the light. Night fascinates you with its mystery and potential, but it's ominous too because things are easily hidden or lost in the dark, especially control. Most species I've encountered are powerless there. No matter where that dark is--inside or out--you are all at its mercy. It's harder to lose things and easier to find them, including yourself, in the light.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Quei ragazzini che non avevano nessun timore dell'incubo di Haden adulto non ci misero molto a finirlo. I grandi dimenticano cosa significhi non aver paura. Un mostro non e un mostro se non ti spaventa.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Flannery amava i cimiteri. Gli piacevano l'ordine e la bellezza artificiale che vi regnavano, perche sapeva che nascevano dal timore, dalla paura. Non certo dall'amore della gente per i propri defunti. Per lui i cimiteri non erano altro che inutili e patetici reliquiari che gli esseri umani cercavano di erigere per allontanare lo spauracchio della morte.
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These days the couple coexisted uneasily in an edgy state where both knew a separation was inevitable and imminent but neither was brave enough to say so. They were in the almost-terminal stage where trivial things the partner does are keenly noticed and continuously resented; how they wipe the kitchen counters after a meal, the messy state of the bathroom after their shower, the toilet seat up, the toilet seat down. Things routinely ignore..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Great sleep dreams seduce and sometimes torture. The best ones can almost break our heart when we awaken from them and find ourselves back...here.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Old age arrives like the first days of fall. One afternoon you look up, or smell something in the air, and know instinctively things have changed. I suppose the same thing is true about our own death. Suddenly it's near enough that we can smell it
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Night keeps its own sounds to itself because most of them come from the other side of silence.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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At eight you're dead serious about what the world owes you: Civilization starts in your own room and moves out from there.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I'd say I'm living, but I'm not alive without you
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Debemos optar por permanecer en el interior del paraiso del pasado el mayor tiempo posible o volver a nuestro anodino presente en el que, por lo general, las unicas cosas que anhelamos son el fin de semana, nuestro programa de television favorito, un sexo mediocre de vez en cuando, o ir a dormir por la noche?
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Jonathan Carroll |
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The Angel of Death was nothing special to look at: it had manifested itself today as a plate of someone's finished meal of bacon and eggs. Egg yolk was smeared across the white plate. Inside this smear were scattered bread crumbs.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Wszystko, co w zyciu najlepsze, Bill, to dzielo ludzkich rak: ostrza scyzorykow, chleb, ubrania, kochanie sie...
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren't, so when they act like lions you're angry at them for not being the fantasy animals you imagined. Russian bears don't put on top hats and ride unicycles. Or sleep in bed next to Goldilocks. force them to do those stupid things in circuses and films and children's books. Sure, some will be more docile or more ferocious than others, but in the end they will always,..
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Jonathan Carroll |
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I am fifty-five years old, and believe God is willing to listen if we speak clearly and to the point. His responses are manifested, not in immediate answers or results, but in dots everywhere around us that need to be connected intelligently.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Samoe khudshee, chto mozhet sluchit'sia s chelovekom v skazke, - eto prevratit'sia v zveria. No vysochaishaia nagrada dlia zveria - prevratit'sia v cheloveka.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Dumaiu, nuzhno byt' pisatelem, kogda v golove stol'ko bezumnykh idei i istorii. A to lopnesh', esli ikh ne zapishesh'.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Someone made the point somewhere that we must learn to distinguish between the occult and the religious, between magic and true spirituality. The two do sometimes come together--saints do have magical powers, sure, But they don't exploit these powers, and more important, they consider them only by-products of their real concern, which is spiritual development.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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When I was younger, I had a girlfriend. She was like a thousand-dollar perfume--unique, gorgeous, but then gone much too soon.
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Cats are loners that keep us company only when the mood strikes them,
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Jonathan Carroll |
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Sometimes happiness is like the sound of a plane overhead. You look up to see it but the plane's not there. No matter where you look you can't find it on the sky, although the sound is still there and growing louder. You get a little frantic searching. At the same time you're thinking, this is stupid. But you keep looking and if you do finally see it, you feel absolved. Most of my life I'd been looking for happiness in the wrong parts of th..
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Behind the chain-link fence the skeleton of the structure, floodlit from all sides, looked very much like a rocket ship on its launchpad. The lights, so harsh and intense, refused to admit darkness was behind them, beyond them. But the beams quickly disappeared once they flooded out past the museum and into the Alpine night. You would think so much candlepower could shine well up into the sky, but it can bully the night only so far, which i..
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Don't ever try to be normal because it's the first symptom of a terminal disease. As soon as you feel the need to be normal coming on, get the antidote. ... Just make sure you're living your life; don't let normal pretend to be you.
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