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I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.
Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper
As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.
Aren't you afraid?' 'Of what?' 'Of losing yourself.' 'That's what I'm hoping for.
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .
If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.
It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
The human child – so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.
One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.
Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.
when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.
Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!
Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!
For a shining mind and a shining body, you need nature, not gilding or silvering!
We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!
Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!
Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!
God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!
Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!
Storms are not afraid of you; all you must do is not to afraid of the storms too!
There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence!
To find what you are looking for, you must first forget what you are looking for!
Wherever you escape, the truth will find you! Always be prepared to meet with it!
Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!
Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!
Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.