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- Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
- Gail Sheehy
- It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944), The Little Prince
- Among the individuals, as well as among nations, respecting the other people's rights leads to peace.
(Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la Paz.) - Benito Juarez Garcia, Former (late 1800's) President of Mexico.
- There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), Big Sur
- It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically gettin killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Myth of Sisyphus
- Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. - Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593), Doctor Faustus scene 13
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