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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d293474 | I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b4c0c89 | Catch several hares and you won't catch one. | pyotr-petrovitch russian-proverb | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 485da14 | If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets -secrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one's closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one's own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That's why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6d8a30e | I don't understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I've made up my mind to stick to the fact. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 206c16c | Reality alone justifies everything. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2369fff | Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. | dostoyevsky feelings heart helpless humiliation subdued | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c103395 | Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good. | classics dostoevsky russian-literature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 7feee9c | whkdh, `ndm nkwn t`s, fnn nHs bmHn@ lakhryn bSwr@ 'fDl. n lHss l ytbdd, bl nh yshtd..." " | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6a7af56 | I create entire romances in my dreams. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9974737 | Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 342f793 | Have you seen a leaf, a leaf from a tree?" "I have. " "I saw one recently, a yellow one, with some green,decayed on the edges. Blown about by the wind. When I was 10 years old, I'd close my eyes on purpose, in winter, and imagine a leaf - green, bright, with veins, and the sun shining. I'd open my eyes and not believe it, because it was so good, then I'd close them again. " "What's that, an allegory?" "N-no... Why? Not an allegory, simply a.. | russian-literature | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| e4149b1 | The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 3c327cb | No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... | Jen Lancaster | ||
| ec39133 | The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| fc5f77e | Jen gets completely sloshed and it's her wedding) I was supposed to meet Carol and her family at the aquarium the next morning, and somehow had the presence of mind to leave a voicemail apologizing in advance for not being able to make it. I was please at myself for being so responsible and considerate. After I left the message, I blissfully headed off to bed, wearing a face full of makeup, all my grown up jewelry, and a relatively restri.. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| cd1fb5e | it'd be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I've done that,' Mark said airily. 'It's a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn't need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 968c7d5 | Yetta thought. | choice choices suffrage vote | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 94303ac | The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| b8839e7 | You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava?" He was reminding me to love God more than meditation. "Do not mistake the technique for the Goal." | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| fc4b0fb | Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience. | duty | Jeff Shaara | |
| 8be8750 | Do not abandon what You have begun in me, but go on to perfect all that remains unfinished. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| b196e50 | For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, "I am the truth." | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| d5406c0 | He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner. | habit lust sin | Augustine of Hippo | |
| 7ef20ee | His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. | philosophy theology | Augustine of Hippo | |
| a7bb786 | Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 12204fd | Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 22e489c | Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great is the Lord and highly worthy to be praised. I tell my story for love of Your love. | journaling | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| eefbf87 | There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion--everything is distant and removed. | Penny Reid | ||
| 32119c2 | marriage is an ultimate sport in emotional multitasking. I'm never only mad at Greg. I'm mad and madly in love; angry and concerned for his wellbeing; he frustrates and delights me in the same second. We were arguing, but we were still a team. | Penny Reid | ||
| 5c68c0b | I like you because you are Kaitlyn--genuine, beautiful, brilliant, amazing Kaitlyn--not because you're Kaitlyn Parker. And I'm in love with you because I can't help myself. | Penny Reid | ||
| 1dc2a56 | The phone in my hand buzzed, demanding my attention, and a text flashed on the screen. It was from Cletus and the sight made my heart lurch and twist, a pining ache stealing my breath. As I scrolled through my notifications, I noticed several texts. Cletus: I'm sorry. I was wrong, you were right. Cletus: I just realized you probably don't have your phone. Cletus: I think I'm going to make myself useful by retrieving your phone. Cletus: I ju.. | Penny Reid | ||
| d9cde4e | You want to know what you are to me? Fine. You're my beginning, middle, and end. | Penny Reid | ||
| 394c5d8 | And, when it was time for Meg to give her statement, I punched her in the face. | Penny Reid | ||
| ad20557 | Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels - may make your panties explode. | Penny Reid | ||
| e00281c | You can't just go around giving people cars. You're not Oprah. | Penny Reid | ||
| 2f196e0 | This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author's questionable imagination or are used factitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons (living, dead, or undead), events, or locales is entirely coincidental, if not somewhat disturbing and/or concerning. | Penny Reid | ||
| e89be76 | What are we doing?" I asked, feeling restless. "Taking comfort." That made me smile, so I peered up at him. "You're taking comfort in me?" "Yes." My smile grew and I closed my eyes, giving myself over to the moment. Gradually, I heard a symphony of sounds rise around us. Wind played through the grass, rustled the small but plentiful leaves of a nearby lonely oak. Crickets and other insects chirped and hummed. I felt the beat of Jethro's hea.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 67257fe | People were, essentially, the secrets they kept. | Penny Reid | ||
| 9710287 | Everyone knows that in real life, fictionally handsome men are vacuous vessels of Satan. | Penny Reid | ||
| 7033cc3 | I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything. | Karen Hesse | ||
| caf5f06 | God uses people who fail--'cause there aren't any other kind around. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| d68b98a | I've learned we all get exactly what we need, when we need it, in order to learn what God intends for us to know so we can be who God intends for us to be. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 7fd0dd3 | Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| f97a8b2 | now I know my capacity for awe | Elizabeth Alexander |