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| e6ca1e2 | I can't really remember the days. The light of the sun blurred and annihilated all color. But the nights, I remember them. The blue was more distant than the sky, beyond all depths, covering the bounds of the world. The sky, for me, was the stretch of pure brilliance crossing the blue, that cold coalescence beyond all color. Sometimes, it was in Vinh Long, when my mother was sad she'd order the gig and we'd drive out into the country to see.. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 4384f11 | I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens. I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direct.. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| dfc57ac | I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more i.. | life inspirational | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| c34cad2 | nthz lfrS@ ltt'lm bqdr mtstTy` ln w'nt shb , l'n hdhh l'mwr l tdwm Twl lHy@. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d2ebc20 | Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love | sex love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 209b82a | A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 579ce03 | Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists"." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 4f3c85c | Es la vida, mas que la muerte, la que no tiene limites. | vida | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 5772eca | Sin embargo, antes de llegar al verso final ya habia comprendido que no saldria jamas de ese cuarto, pues estaba previsto que la ciudad de los espejos ( o los espejismos) seria arrasada por el viento y desterrada de la memoria de los hombres en el instante en que Aureliano Babilonio acabara de descifrar los pergaminos, y que todo lo escrito en ellos era irrepetible desde siempre y para siempre, porque las estirpes condenadas a cien anos de .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f0de2b6 | And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on. But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. | seuss | Dr. Seuss | |
| 7492982 | The Conch Shell's tint was that of a vagina blowing bubble gum. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 58f22aa | At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage. | Tom Robbins | ||
| cd1dcef | I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. | Tom Robbins | ||
| fb51beb | In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow do.. | doubt disruption system order revolution | Tom Robbins | |
| dda3ca3 | Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey s.. | laws sociology | Tom Robbins | |
| 0a4de52 | The protagonist, Amanda, discusses her sex relationship with her husband, John Paul -- As long as it's done with honesty and grace, John Paul doesn't mind if I go to bed with other men. Or with other girls, as is sometimes my fancy. What has marriage got to do with it? Marriage is not a synonym for monogamy any more than monogamy is a synonym for ideal love. To live lightly on the earth, lovers and families must be more flexible and relaxed.. | relationships | Tom Robbins | |
| d63dad5 | Of this, I am actually certain. After collecting thousands of stories, I'm willing to call this a fact: A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. | Brené Brown | ||
| 92f8d94 | We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don't reflect our fullness. Yet when we don't risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilder.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 4eec1a9 | True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are. We want true belonging, but it takes tremendous courage to knowingly walk into hard moments. | true-belonging | Brené Brown | |
| 9a7b564 | The death of a parent, he wrote, "despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections." | Joan Didion | ||
| cd134a1 | I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O'Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O'Keeffe 'Sky Above Clouds' canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a w.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 54227de | prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day fo.. | Joan Didion | ||
| f674177 | For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms "success" and "failure" had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one's place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the .. | Paul Auster | ||
| 9517db2 | Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them. | Paul Auster | ||
| aac4362 | Every man is the author of his own life. | life | Paul Auster | |
| a762082 | The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell. | William Golding | ||
| 0b843cc | We're not savages. We're English. | William Golding | ||
| b69a5d5 | My little brother's greatest fear was that the one person who meant so much to him would go away. He loved Lindsey and Grandma Lynn and Samuel and Hal, but my father kept him stepping lightly, son gingerly monitoring father every morning and every evening as if, without such vigilance, he would lose him. We stood- the dead child and the living- on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves forver. To ple.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| bc5a4d9 | The more you look, the more you see. | Pirsig Robert M. | ||
| bffff0f | It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says. | life great-minds purpose-of-life rationality madmen | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| ca50c2c | Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step to some chosen end across a span of time. The work of cooking a meal was like a closed circle, completed and gone, leading nowhere. But the work of building a path was a living sum, so that no day was left to die behind her, but each day contained all those that preceded it, each day acquired.. | nature purpose | Ayn Rand | |
| 295a5ea | Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... | sex wealth slavery freedom reason life love philosophy causality individual-rights objective-law volition pursuit-of-happiness commerce jobs usa economy rock-and-roll crisis economics law regulation force liberty society political-philosophy constitution government atheism capitalism tyranny trade drugs | Ayn Rand | |
| c181c86 | The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 2460c6f | The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending." -- | Anne Tyler | ||
| a6bc060 | When you have children, you're obligated to live. | Anne Tyler | ||
| aae6299 | things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice. | universe science | Brian Greene | |
| ad86520 | Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of the house which looked down to the orchard and the bowling-green, and in spite of his long absence it was so familiar to him that when he woke at about three he made his way to the window almost as quickly as if dawn had already broken, opened it and walked out onto the balcony. The moon had set: there was barely a star to be seen. The still.. | music | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 451c675 | This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins." -- | magic love wisdom merlin king-arthur knights | John Steinbeck | |
| 71f794c | In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should first inspect the end to be achieved and then, once he had accepted the end as desirable, he should forget it completely and concentrate solely on the means. By this method he would not be moved to false action by anxiety or hurry or fear. Very .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5ffdd4a | Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.' 'We take a beatin' all the time.' 'I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'. | the-grapes-of-wrath rich poor | John Steinbeck | |
| 5670c0c | When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 65535f8 | Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry. | life lifestyle | Nora Roberts | |
| 28087c8 | a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8452fb4 | I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left." "You didn't give me up," she tossed back. "You never wanted me." "I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you." He dragged her painfully to her toes. "I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sen.. | romance the-reef | Nora Robertsrts |