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- If wild my breast and sore my pride,
I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou (1928 - ), I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- My life closed twice before its' close-
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. - Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
- In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
- We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.
- Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
- Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
- Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
- William Ockham (1300 - 1349)
- Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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