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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.…
— Isaac Asimov
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
— Lucretius
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Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I…
— Isaac Asimov
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I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place…
— Erich Fromm
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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