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#1

“Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.”
― Hilary Mantel

tags: childhood

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#2

“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like thing to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: immortals, old-people, seriousness

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#3

“Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.”
― Yuri Herrera, La transmigración de los cuerpos

tags: death-of-a-child, grief-and-loss

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#4

“People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark

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#5

“That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.”
― Yuri Herrera

tags: flaws, friendship, friendships, vices

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#6

“We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.”
― Robert Aickman, Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

tags: duality, inner-peace

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#7

“The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: memory, past-and-present, the-past, time

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#8

“It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: nature, rocks

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#9

“Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.”
― John Fowles, The Ebony Tower

tags: courage, determination, sin

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#10

“But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: 1869, businessmen, intellect

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#11

“I'd like you to know there is a limit to the disgrace in the consciousness of one's own worthlessness and powerlessness beyond which a man cannot go, and after which he begins to feel a tremendous satisfaction in his own disgrace.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: disgrace, disgrace-quotes, humility, powerless, powerlessness, worthless, worthlessness

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#12

“We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

tags: fyodor-dostoyevsky, the-idiot

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#13

“My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I’ve only found sorrow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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