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“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”
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“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.”
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“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
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“Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.”
― The Way of Shadows
― The Way of Shadows
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
― Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
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“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
― The Solitaire Mystery
― The Solitaire Mystery
“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
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“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
― Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
― The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
― The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena
“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”
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“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Night
― Night
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