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- All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
- When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into…
- All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence…
- THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect,…
- Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the…
- Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem…
- What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to…
- Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.…
- You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
- You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray