Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous
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“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“My life is nothing but room for you. It could never be filled by anyone but you.”
— Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
I don't know that I'm right, but I do know everyone else is wrong.
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“Close beside dark and gloomy men there is to be found a soul of light. It is as it were the negative shadow they cast.”
—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §258 (edited).
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“That’s the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.”
— John Updike.
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“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
— John Updike
Source: quotemadness.com
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“What do you do with that fact? Do you hold it like a stone in your hand? Pitch it away from this great height and watch it fall? Do you swallow it and feel it in your throat till the day you die?”
— Ben Winters, Underground Airlines
“Time makes things worse. Bad is faster than good. Wickedness is a weed and does not wither on its own. It grows and spreads.”
-Ben H. Winters (Underground Airlines)
"That’s the problem with doing the devil’s work. It can be pretty satisfying now and again. Pretty goddamn satisfying."
-Ben H. Winters (Underground Airlines)
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“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can’t have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I’ll show you a man who is not yet a man.”
—
Yukio Mishima
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“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
— Yukio Mishima
People find in very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be commited. And to be commited is to be in danger.
(James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time)
In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.
Be the inferior of no man, or of any men be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man’s guilt is not yours, nor is any man’s innocence a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil. These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret.
In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
William Saroyan (The Time Of Your Life)
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“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
— Dante Alighieri, from “The Divine Comedy”, published p. 1472
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“Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.”
— John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
You know what is so beautiful about questions? It’s that we don’t have the answers.
Paolo Sorrentino (The New Pope)