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Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.
How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?
If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'
Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.
All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.
After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.
It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.
Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.