"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
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"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
"Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you."
"If you can not be a poet, be the poem."
"Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore."
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement."
"For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom."
"We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star."
"I mined my mind, and I found no love. My heart is where excavation yields gold, and if you dig me as much as I dig you, we can both get rich."
"I fled Him down the nights and down the daysI fled Him down the arches of the yearsI fled Him down the labyrinthine waysOf my own mind, and in the midst of tearsI hid from him, and under running laughter."
"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
"Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with."
"I need more frugality. I wonder where I can buy some."
"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
"I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me."
"The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased."
"Long Term Relationships [10w] Long term relationships should begin and end with a laugh."
"Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's."
"Figure, Woman, Wife I study the sleeping figure,Stare at her sated curl of lip;Her lids sealed in dreams so pureMy love's secured from tip to tip.I study the sleeping womanHer forehead faint with sweatHer eyes wildly remmingOf adulterous sex, I bet.I study the sleeping wife,Her mouth faintly drawing breath;Her throat pouring pools of blood ~How I loved this woman to death."
"He said "cool"like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation."
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