I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal...
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Ayn Rand
The relationship between truth and reason:" Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!
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Maurice Blondel
I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul
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Beth Nimmo
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
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Delos McKown
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
More Quotes By Lydia Davis
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several more bad times and several more bad feelings, so that their life together became crowded with bad times and bad feelings, so crowded that almost nothing...
Art is not in some far-off place.
I had reached a juncture in my reading life that is familiar to those who have been there: in the allotted time left to me on earth, should I read more and more new books, or should I cease with that vain consumption--vain because it...
...as long as I felt I had to take some action, I was anguished, and when I gave up all responsibility and stopped trying to do anything at all, I was relatively at peace, even though the earth meanwhile was circling so far below us...
