"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."
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"The more I love, the more I find that life is magical."
"1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x2. I had three. Hope that's OK. Dad x3. I'm just going to have one more. Dad x4. Harriet, your Dad's made himself sick on an entire multipack of Mars Bars again. Please don't leave sweets where we can find them. A x"
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."
"When it's over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."
"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"
"We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations."
"I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo."
"If you're independent-minded in school, you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not the trait that's being preferred or cultivated."
"She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?"
"The path of light is the quest for knowledge."
"Finding Fault [10w] + {Couplet} We find in others faultWhenever our wounds perceives salt."
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
"Bespeckled Heroes [10w] Great heroes in 100 years become statues speckled with birdshit."
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