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- Truth is a pathless land.
- Krishnamurti
- If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.
- Krishnamurti
- Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Notre-Dame de Paris
- Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
- Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
- Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart
- Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemos
- Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
- How high must we build these walls Around the fields of paradise?
- Ricardo Pinto, The Chosen
- In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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