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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
― The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
― The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.”
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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