Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions. They are an abundant excess, a luxury of life, and they appear more at the summits of happiness, when you have no crude desires. They are not born in the midst of mundanity. They have no place where there is grief and want. The masses go along without knowing the fog of doubts or the anguish of questions. But for anyone who has encountered them at the right time they are dear visitors, not a hammer.'' But there's no coping with them. They bring anguish and indifference to nearly everything.' she added indecisively.' But for how long? Afterward they refresh life, ' he said. 'They lead to an abyss from which nothing can be gained, and they force you to look again at life, with even greater love. They summon up your tested powers to struggle with it, as if expressly to let them sleep afterward.'' This fog and these specters torment me! ' she complained. 'Everything is bright and all of a sudden a sinister shadow is cast over life! Are there no means against this?'' What do you mean? Your buttress is in life! Without it, life is sickening, even without any questions! 'p. 508 . Ivan Goncharov
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
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Amit Ray
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that...
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C. Joybell C.
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
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