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- Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is…
- You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life…
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.
- It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in…
- Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of…
- He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God…
- In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,…
- The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment…
- The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class…
- I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place…
- The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their…
- What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of…
- And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like…
- There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking…
- The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A…
- No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace…
- He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold…
- The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt