I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Elie Wiesel
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.
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Sanober Khan
Everything that is, casts a shadow
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Neil Gaiman
It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.
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Jay Asher
More Quotes By Nikos Kazantzakis
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.. .. All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in...
