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- There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- From the first day we hid the woman within the man, so that at the right time we could remove her from within him. We didn't create man to live alone; she was purposed from the beginning. By taking her out of him, he birthed her in a sense. We created a circle of relationship, like our own, but for humans. She, out of him, and now all the males, including me, birthed through her, and all originating, or birthed, from God.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
(Walter M. Miller Jr, "A Canticle for Leibowitz")
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- How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!
(William Peter Blatty, "The Exorcist")
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- It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
(Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows")
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- But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? -- Love. That was his answer.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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