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Phelan ignored that. He shifted out of reach, leaned back, brooding with the gulls along the bank and looking, with his pale hair and gray eyes, something like one. Like them, he watched the water for a ripple, a sign, direction. Water
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“Says the poet Mir Camar Uddin Mast, “Being seated, to run through the region of the spiritual world; I have had this advantage in books. To be intoxicated by a single glass of wine; I have experienced this pleasure when I have drunk the liquor of the esoteric doctrines.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Our daily happiness depends at least four times as much on how we approach life than on what life brings our way.” Mark Leary”
― Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life
― Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life
“Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit: put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. The end of life is rightly thought of as a period of meditation. Will I be sorry that I did not begin it sooner?”
― The Sea, The Sea
― The Sea, The Sea
“Where are my sensations? They have melted into . . . me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”
― The Trouble with Being Born
― The Trouble with Being Born
“Although what makes you passionate generally doesn’t change over time, what you want to do sometimes does.”
― Life Is Short And So Is This Book
― Life Is Short And So Is This Book
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