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| 76d98e2 | I am alone. They have gone into the house for breakfast, and I am left standing by the wall among the flowers. It is very early, before lessons. Flower after flower is specked on the depths of green. The petals are harlequins. Stalks rise from the black hollows beneath. The flowers swim like fish made of light upon the dark, green waters. I hold a stalk in my hand. I am the stalk. My roots go down to the depths of the world, through earth d.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 58b4b28 | I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 49f0fdb | For every man there are certain words that are as if closer and more intimate to him than any others. And often, unexpectedly, in some remote, forsaken backwater, some deserted desert, one meets a man whose warming conversation makes you forget the pathlessness of your paths, the homelessness of your nights, and the contemporary world full of people's stupidity, of deceptions for deceiving man. Forever and always an evening spent in this wa.. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 373ff65 | Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 477bb67 | The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. | Edward Gibbons | ||
| 0957cc4 | as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. | valor vice war-and-peace | Edward Gibbon | |
| 06e00b2 | The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2f63af1 | The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 64391cc | Tentacles is my term -- the Tentacles are the evil tasks that invade my life. Like, for example, my American History class last week, which necessitated me writing a paper on the weapons of the Revolutionary war, which necessitated me traveling to the Metropolitan Museum to check out some of the old guns, which necessitated me getting the subway, which necessitated me being away from my cell phone and email for 45 minutes, which meant that .. | real-life struggles tentacles | Ned Vizzini | |
| f768ff6 | If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 01629bc | I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed"." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bd61090 | We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy. | marriage | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6326e6d | Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you ha.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b22d15d | My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 530e181 | Marriage is what happens "between the memorable." He said that we often look back on our marriages years later, perhaps after one spouse has died, and wall we can recall are "the vacations, and emergencies" - the high points and low points. The rest of it blends into a blurry sort of daily sameness. But it is that very blurred sameness, the poet argues, that comprises marriage. Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations,.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 00b8779 | I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| cdecb4c | One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9eba3a0 | I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I imagined my body parts flying off my torso in order to escape the volcanic core of unhappiness that had become: me. | tension unhappiness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b06ae2c | And even beyond the flaws, there are just some simple differences between Felipe and me that we will both have to accept. He will never--I promise you--attend a yoga class with me, no matter how many times I may try to convince him that he would absolutely love it. (He would absolutely not love it.) We will never meditate together on a weekend spiritual retreat. I will never get him to cut back on all the red meat, or to do some sort of fad.. | marriage romance truth | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| a794b78 | 'n lstu wthqh mm 'rydh , '`lmu 'nny lTlm rGbtu bsm`i rjlin yqwlu ly " d`yny '`tny bk ll'bd " , wlm ysbq l'Hdin 'n qlh ly mn qbl , wfy lsnwt l'khyrh , twqftu `n lbHth `n dhlk lshkhS , wt`lmtu qwl hdhh ljml@ lmshj`h lnfsy , l sym fy 'wqti lkhwf ." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9d7f959 | I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. | lobster writing | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 6451647 | The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 08729cf | The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 6f3167f | He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him? | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 2c5d72e | A last trick is to become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ||
| 6dd1ed4 | Truth is most beautiful undraped. | schopenhauer truth | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 13d58f6 | Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? --Thus Spake Zarathustra | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| ee2483b | If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 19f234d | More in love with desire than with the desired! | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 60aeec8 | There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7fdb436 | In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics. Every subject plays his part as such specifically through exploits or projects that serve as a mode of transcendence; he achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out towards other liberties. There is no justification for .. | philosophy | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| 2b33450 | The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 4b73be6 | Time is fluid here', said the Demon. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8bf28dc | And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterwards it seemed able to do 250 miles on a gallon of petrol, ran so quietly that you practically had to put your mouth over the exhaust pipe to see if the engine was firing , and issued its voice-synthesized warnings in a series of exquisite and perfectly-phrased haikus, each one original and apt... Late frost burns the bloom Would a fool not let t.. | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0aae2a6 | When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5d1ac5e | When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 81ad3f1 | It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that society is huge and the individual is less than nothing. But the truth is individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9b06e9a | She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men." | fathers single-parenting | Neil Gaiman | |
| 144709f | If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cbf2ff6 | Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. | libraries reading | Neil Gaiman | |
| 2569b5f | One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either. | new-york-city shoehorn-with-teeth they-might-be-giants | Terry Pratchett | |
| 89582d4 | She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e394c58 | We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others' pain and loss. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d018147 | If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his. | Neil Gaiman |