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With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had… — Henry Miller
I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the… — Haruki Murakami
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of… — Athol Fugard
I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must… — Leo Buscaglia
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little… — Walker Percy
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. — Carlos Castaneda
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns. — Herman Wouk
What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being. — Vladimir Nabokov
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. — Cesar Chavez
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was… — Charles Bukowski
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake… — Ray Bradbury
(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a… — Marlon Brando
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. — Rajneesh
The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing… — C.S. Lewis
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes,… — Nick Hornby
Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people… — Grant Morrison
Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen. — Pope Benedict XVI
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. — Emmanuel Levinas
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. — Arthur Miller
I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between… — Sylvia Browne
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice… — James Patterson

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