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From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture. - Max Stirner
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. - Theodore Roosevelt
We all are laying in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. - William Arthur Ward
“I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night"
― Loreena McKennitt
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - Peter Benchley
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs. - Peter Benchley
“The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween.
October Dreams: A celebration of
Halloween”
― Paula Curan
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake. - Sigmund Freud
“Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of reality and a necessary Gothic hat-tip to the darker aspects of life, death and ourselves.”
― Stewart Stafford
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. - Anna Freud
“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. - Napoleon Hill
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. - Desiderius Erasmus
“Do I see this world through your eyes or mine?”
― Bert McCoy
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. - Oscar Wilde
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. - Montesquieu
“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. - Albert Camus
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Nothing is less instructive than a machine. - Simone Weil
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. - Franz Kafka