Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will d better to seek out the company of other animals. A zoo is a better window from which to look out of the human world than a monastery. John N. Gray
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
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Maggie Stiefvater
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
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Amit Kalantri
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
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Emma Donoghue
More Quotes By John N. Gray
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices
If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.
If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these...
Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights,...
