The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams hopes to banish the dark power of reality. The gods enjoy eternal youth, and the search for the means of securing it was one of the occupations of the heroes of mythology and the sages, as it was of real adventurers in the middle ages and more recent times. . . . But the fountain of youth has not been found, and can not be found if it is sought in any particular spot on the earth. Yet it is no fable, no dream-picture; it requires no adept to find it: it streams forth inexhaustible in all living nature.
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Ferdinand Cohn
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o’clock on an ordinary morning:The
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o’clock on an ordinary morning:
The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.
The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn’t have to.
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Walker Percy,
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
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Michael Jackson
I know one thing you don’t. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn’t teach you that at school.’Rose didn’t answer; the
I know one thing you don’t. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn’t teach you that at school.’
Rose didn’t answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods–Good and Evil.
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Graham Greene,
Brighton Rock
Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I’m just some idiot actor having a
Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I’m just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell you, help. Help.
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Salman Rushdie,
The Satanic Verses
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
The Cost of Discipleship
She doesn’t want the boy causing the distinction between “love” and “in love – Rachel
She doesn’t want the boy causing the distinction between ‘love’ and ‘in love
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Rachel Cohn
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. – Bob
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
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Bob Dylan
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