my favorite quotes by my favorite people

7.9  

"And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?"

"I'm full of dust and guitars…"

"I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway. "

"Well, I've got a colour telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more. "

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8.6  

"I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?"

"Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die."

"Life, what is it but a dream?"

"if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

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8.3  

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else"

"Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise."

"life is made of ever so many partings welded together..."

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8.4  

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

"The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress."

"without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls."

"How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. "

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

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8.8  

"Many are the strange chances of the world... and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."

"Not all who wander are lost."

9.4  

"There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away."

"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

"I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture."

"This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing
To waft me from distraction. "

"In solitude, where we are least alone. "

"I stood
Among them, but not of them; in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts. "

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8.4  

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

"They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong."

"to the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. "

"I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. "

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing."

"i talk to God but the sky is empty. "

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8  

"The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."

"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."

"but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."

"Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions."

"If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable."

"we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look..."

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