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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.
Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.
Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.
Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.
Hey listen, I already have a complete list of silver linings. It's the goddamn cloud that's killin me.
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits.
Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school.