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People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this… — David Mitchell
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity â€“ that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,… — Charles Baudelaire
It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself.… — Madeleine L'Engle
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us… — M.F.K. Fisher
The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,… — Thomas Merton
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except… — Stephen Levine
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies… — Richard Dawkins
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a… — Ray Bradbury
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language… — George Orwell
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story… — Hermann Hesse
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have… — Alexandra Adornetto
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. — Virginia Woolf
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything… — Josef Pieper
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to… — Saint Augustine
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon Godâ€™s essence. As one Sufi master… — Reza Aslan
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as… — Terence McKenna
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility… — Malcolm Lowry
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The… — Flannery O'Connor
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a… — Daniel Kahneman

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