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- That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there.
- Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), In an interview
- No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Premature Burial
- Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), The Story Girl
- People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )
- Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Heart of Darkness
- What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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