"Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows……" — Charles Dickens

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• Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they… — Laozi
• Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. — Tom Robbins
• The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common… — Canvass White
• The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless… — Sri Aurobindo
• Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut… — K.J. Parker
• The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to… — Jamais Cascio
• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason… — Richard P. Feynman
• Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we… — William Gaddis
• I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day… — Ivan Goncharov
• But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar
• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in… — Walker Percy
• Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday

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