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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35af85c | Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much takes place within me each day that by comparison I find a paucity, a stinginess, a silence in people which drives me to excess. | isolation loneliness | Anaïs Nin | |
| b627753 | When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body. | sexuality | Anaïs Nin | |
| 0c1ab86 | You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| f140e28 | For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 678855e | Will I really be able to accept my mental loneliness? | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 6169b96 | You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever before. I have disappointed you by acting neurotically at the very moment when I should have shown the wisdom of your guidance. I don't want to ever come back to you. I feel that I must go and work and live and forget about all this." | therapy | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7180d73 | He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one's emotions instead of one's mind. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| d36e8de | I am happy today. I am a tyrant. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| af8c7d3 | To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist's task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the relation of dream to life; the suspense was in finding this which led to a deeper significance of our acts. | dreams writing | Anaïs Nin | |
| 15248a5 | You make me think of Casanova, except that in between the erotic, Casanova was boring, while you, in between eroticism and even because of it, you get profound. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 496a770 | It was as if in captivity, her brilliant plumage were losing its brilliance. She felt the metamorphosis. She knew she was moulting. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| ed56e48 | The words we did not shout, the tears unshed, the curse we swallowed, the phrase we shortened, the love we killed, turned into magnetic iron ore, into tourmaline, into pyrite agate, blood congealed into cinnabar, blood calcinated, leadened into galena, oxidized, aluminized, sulphated, calcinated, the mineral glow of dead meteors and exhausted suns in the forest of dead trees and dead desires. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 866e66f | There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 9c0b07e | Wisdom is knowing what you can accept. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d952249 | When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| f44dec1 | Leave a mark on the world. Instead, the world has left marks on us. We got older. Life chastened us so that now we lie waiting to die, or walk on canes, or sit on porches where once the young juices flowed strongly, and feel old and inept and confused. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| f301a9c | I have heard of people's lives being changed by a dramatic or traumatic event--a death, a divorce, a winning lottery ticket, a failed exam. I never heard of anybody's life but ours being changed by a dinner party. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 1b19d30 | I had stopped my chair at that exact place, coming out, because right there the spice of wisteria that hung around the house was invaded by the freshness of apple blossoms in a blend that lifted the top of my head. As between those who notice such things and those who don't, I prefer those who do. | nature noticing | Wallace Stegner | |
| 4ee631c | Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 3890b81 | Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast a bold shadow, accept, accept. What we call evil is only a groping towards good, part of the trial and error by which we move toward the perfected consciousness... God is kind? Life is good? Nature never did betray the heart that loved her? Why the reward she received for living intensely and generously and trying to die with dignity? Why the.. | loss pain sorrow | Wallace Stegner | |
| 9b58d7a | She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 01a9e7a | The mountains of the Great Divide are not, as everyone knows, born treeless, though we always think of them as above timberline with the eternal snows on their heads. They wade up through ancient forests and plunge into canyons tangled up with water-courses and pause in little gem-like valleys and march attended by loud winds across the high plateaus, but all such incidents of the lower world they leave behind them when they begin to strip .. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| bba40fe | Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 78fde12 | Respect the work that you've never done before. | Jason Fried | ||
| 1ff2664 | When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers. | Jason Fried | ||
| 2b0ab87 | It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 0eb15aa | It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| d7e1ae8 | The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian." | Jim Trelease | ||
| 54f8f0f | I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f3a5ace | How much longer would our lives be lived from one "last night" to the next?" | Elie Wiesel | ||
| fe794b3 | Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round of interrogations. And when it happens, the feeling of inferiority becomes more acute; it bores into the brain, and the cultural and psychological defenses that surround the brain disintegrate and vanish. The ego is dissolved. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c81c8d6 | Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand His replies. We cannot understand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 305786e | In the beginning there was faith--which is childish; trust--which is vain; and illusion--which is dangerous. We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image. That was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 932e9e6 | It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. | holocaust ww2 | Elie Wiesel | |
| 0ca3b1a | All my life, until today, I have been content to ask questions. All the while knowing that the real questions, those that concern the creator and his creation, have no answers. I'll go even farther and say that there is a level at which only the questions are eternal, the answers never are. And so, the patient that I am, more charitable, repeats: 'Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as in the answers. | questions | Elie Wiesel | |
| 04c3987 | One of our greatest failures in our busy, driven culture is that we don't celebrate the temporary untying of a complex narrative...What is your style of celebrating an ending? Do you only throw large parties after someone graduates, gets married, or dies? If so, then all the other endings in your story are lost in the wake of another day's busyness. Perhaps one of the reasons you and I don't party well, is that we don't know what to do with.. | community false-self healing true-self | Dan B. Allender | |
| 01299de | I can't help it. I was born a miscarriage. I had so many insults I died. I was born dead. I can't help it. I'm tired. I'm give out trying. You got chances. I had so many insults I was born dead. You got it easy. I was born dead an' life was hard. I'm tired. I'm tired out talking and standing up. I been dead fifty-five years." The" | Ken Kesey | ||
| 6ef2f3f | practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve. | Susan Howatch | ||
| a14724c | I understand what you are feeling," he said. "As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine." | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 79e389c | The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth," recited Orphu, "would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is." -- | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2693cb3 | Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7e2cdc3 | She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains. | Mary McCarthy | ||
| 81b3064 | Well,all she had to do was ask," one offended male replied. "I hope you're satisfied!" Lauren whispered furiously. "I'm not," Nick chuckled in her ear. "But I'm going to be." Fully intending to leave him to take his own notes, Lauren slammed her notebook closed and tried to shove her chair back. Nick's body blocked the chair. She twisted her head around to say something scathing, and his lips captured hers in a kiss that forced her head aga.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| a4ed17e | Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always -- these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel beyond the realm of the hour and the restraint of the habit. Nor can the actual work be well separated from the entire life. Like the knights of the Middle Ages, there is little the creatively inclined person can do but to prepare himself, body and spirit, for the labor to come -- for his advent.. | creativity inspirational | Mary Oliver |