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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,…
— Douglas Adams
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Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
— Thomas Huxley
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Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
— C.S. Lewis
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
— Max Jacob
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
— Albert Einstein
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As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my…
— Alanis Morissette
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Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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