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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
― Lao Tzu

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
― David Hume

“Do those clowns really believe what they teach?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs. ”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, “The reward of suffering is experience.” Let this be the lasting legacy of Vietnam.”
― Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“For nothing was simply one thing.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.”
― Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain

“Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the moment.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
― Michael Crichton

“Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.”
― Michael Crichton, Prey

“This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.”
― Michael Crichton

“Power is neither male or female.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure