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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his… — Samuel Johnson
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence… — Yann Martel
Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever… — Janet Fitch
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in… — Robert E. Lee
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most… — Lionel Shriver
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food,… — Frederick Douglass
All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I… — Carolyn Parkhurst
TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing… — Joe Meno
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill… — Alberto Manguel
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your… — Thomas S. Monson
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the… — Anthony Trollope
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… — Angela Carter
It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust… — Virginia Woolf
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the… — Oscar Wilde
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. — Annie Dillard
If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing… — Truman Capote
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. — Anne Fadiman
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.… — Eduardo Galeano
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. — Ayn Rand
And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own… — Anne Rice

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