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| 8c67ca3 | They thought he was blind until the doctor told them it was just a vacuous stare. He told them that Jules, with his large head, might be a genius or an idiot. It turned out he was an idiot. He never spoke a word until he was five. Then, one night coming up to supper, he sat down at the table and said "Death." -- | Richard Matheson | ||
| ecca80f | Anyone who couldn't understand that what's important is a man's soul, not the color of his skin, would never be content here. | Richard Matheson | ||
| bf60911 | After the first few weeks of building up intense hope about the dog, it had slowly dawned on him that intense hope was not the answer and never had been. In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all th.. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 5bd4a0c | Rather than go on suffering, he had learned to stultify himself to introspection. Time had lost its multidimensional scope. There was only the present for Robert Neville; a present based on day-to-day survival marked by neither heights of joy nor depths of despair. I am predominantly vegetable, he often thought to himself. That was the way he wanted it. | Richard Matheson | ||
| e9207f0 | There were no servants to maintain the house; they were indistinguishable from the guests by then. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 09aa10c | Each man's life is a tome of episodes. Consider all the moments of your life enumerated one by one with full description. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2b74d81 | Of only one thing I am certain. If the manuscript is true, all of us had better examine our lives. Carefully. | Richard Matheson | ||
| eda6bed | They sat there in the evening of the last day. And, though there was no actual point to it, they loved each other. | Richard Matheson | ||
| e9b135c | Cornered again, Mr. Cook reluctantly made a third duplicate; then a fourth, a fifth. The city, albeit large, soon became thick with William O. Cooks. He would come upon himself at corners, discover himself asking himself for lights, end up, quite literally, beside himself. | Richard Matheson | ||
| fb79d53 | He leaned back against the brick step, puffing out slow clouds of smoke. Far out across that field he knew there was still a depression in the ground where he had buried Virginia, where she had unburied herself. But knowing it brought no glimmer of reflective sorrow to his eyes. Rather than go on suffering, he had learned to stultify himself to introspection. Time had lost its multidimensional scope. There was only the present for Robert Ne.. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2463c46 | I'd been in the densest part of the earth's aura he told me, an aqueous region which was the source of myths about the waters of Lethe, the River Styx. | Richard Matheson | ||
| b466a33 | I loved Ann and would help her. Nothing in the depths of Hell would keep me from it. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 62e6704 | Did you know, Robert, that, in extreme unction, the seven centers of the body--covering the vital organs--are anointed to assist the dying person to withdraw vitality from those organs in preparation for complete withdrawal through the silver cord? And absolution of the dead was established to make certain that the silver cord is severed and all etheric matter withdrawn from the body. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 7d50805 | Literally, it was inconceivable to us; as though, by divorcing, we would voluntarily permit ourselves to be torn in half. | Richard Matheson | ||
| dc6d90a | All without knowing what it was to love and be loved. That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire. | Richard Matheson | ||
| f4b4477 | Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Mostly it hurt.... | Richard Matheson | ||
| f1a4655 | The gift?" "An ability to utilize the etheric sense despite their encapsulation in the physical body." | Richard Matheson | ||
| a0f0566 | Poi un giorno il cane non si presento. Neville entro in agitazione. Si era talmente abituato a quelle visite da trasformarle nel centro della sua routine quotidiana, che aveva riorganizzato intorno ai pasti dell'animale, tralasciando le indagini, accantonando tutto il resto, preso com'era dal desiderio di averlo in casa. Passo il pomeriggio a setacciare il vicinato con i nervi a fior di pelle, chiamandolo a squarciagola. Ma tutte le ricerch.. | cane italiano rivelazione robert-neville | Richard Matheson | |
| 5297a0c | The essence of it all--this is the important part--was the knowledge that my thoughts had been real. Not just the things I said and did. What went on in my mind as well, positive or negative. | Richard Matheson | ||
| ae37bb0 | I'm an animal! he exulted. I'm a dumb, stupid animal and I'm going to drink! | Richard Matheson | ||
| fc46871 | And he wonders, deep in the self-isolated recesses of his mind whether he is killing himself with anger, whether he is destroying his system with fury. | isolation madness | Richard Matheson | |
| c9f222a | The atmosphere in here-- | Richard Matheson | ||
| 2c898c3 | Miro hacia la biblioteca. Aquella sabiduria no calmaria nunca su fuego; siglos y siglos de palabras no podian satisfacer aquel deseo imperativo e irracional. | books desire frustration knowledge libraries longing sex wisdom world-literature | Richard Matheson | |
| 178d16a | I will try to be consistent, no longer oscillating like some planet that has lost its way. For, at long last, I have found my sun. | Richard Matheson | ||
| fc6478b | We are meant for one another and none else. I know that to be true. I seem, tonight, to know exactly what love is. (I could play Juliet to perfection at this moment!) It is the key to all hearts and your love has opened mine forever. For me, this world begins and ends with you. | Richard Matheson | ||
| a213476 | Siempre, a pesar de todo, habia deseado encontrar a un semejante: hombre, mujer, nino, no importaba. Sin la incesante influencia de las masas, el sexo perdia rapidamente importancia. En cambio, la soledad seguia en primera linea. | human-extinction loneliness love sex solitude | Richard Matheson | |
| 2502834 | Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 9273df5 | Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| bfb2797 | In the early 1990s, Anders Ericsson, a colleague of Neil Charness at Florida State University, coined the term "deliberate practice" to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an "activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the sole purpose of effectively improving specific aspects of an individual's performance."4" | Cal Newport | ||
| 16c3bfb | Voy a dibujar mi futuro, ya no dependere de nadie. | futuro independencia kakannomadonna | Chiho Saitō | |
| 8b6d16b | An auction market, by contrast, is less structured: There are many different types of career capital, and each person might generate a unique collection. The cleantech space is an auction market. Mike Jackson's capital, for example, included expertise in renewable energy markets and entrepreneurship, but there are a variety of other types of relevant skills | Cal Newport | ||
| 25c6576 | adopt the craftsman mindset first and then the passion follows. | Cal Newport | ||
| 0c746f1 | Advice, n. The smallest current coin. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 2bf9ab8 | Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| b37b3b0 | There is more right with you than wrong with you"--those" | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 0346195 | Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| ab7a16f | Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 2cfcf59 | The mountain is always grounded, rooted in the earth, always still, always beautiful. It is beautiful just being what it is, seen or unseen, snow-covered or green, rained on or wrapped in clouds. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 0c1be83 | We live immersed in a world of constant doing. Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing, or, put otherwise, with the world of being. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| f1a8e26 | Our lives are simply bigger than thought. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ecc5975 | It is only when the mind is open and receptive that learning and seeing and change can occur. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| a7072ab | you be aware of this as you practice? | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| b4f07b3 | For while we are now blessed with "24/7 connectivity" so we can be in touch with anybody anywhere at any time, we may be finding, ironically enough, that it is more difficult than ever to actually be in touch with ourselves. What is more, we may feel that we have less time in which to do it, although each of us still gets the same twenty-four hours a day as everybody else. It's just that we fill up those hours with so much doing, we scarcel.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| c753e42 | There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your life's problems or promote healing. It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer. | Jon Kabat-Zinn |