Endless Quotes

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After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings… — Harlan Ellison
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem… — Langston Hughes
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. — E L Doctorow
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, â€” What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are… — Thomas Ligotti
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is… — Jorge Luis Borges
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. — Annie Dillard
How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the… — Carole Maso
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:… — Anton Chekhov
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people… — Anais Nin
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,… — John Green
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it… — Hugh Prather
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's… — Haruki Murakami
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges

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