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- Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
- Alan Alda (1936 - ), GQ, Summer, 1980
- Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
- Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), Defence of Hedonism
- People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.
- Somerset Maugham
- There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
- I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, May 2, 2006
- There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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