Perhaps I should explain to him that it has been my particular way of frustrating time's attrition, postponing death and sustaining the illusion that one can always erase everything and make a fresh start.
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
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Simon Bolivar
That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their...
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John A. Widtsoe
The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives.
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John A. Widtsoe
The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Nathacha Appanah
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may...
Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of...
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
