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Bri Fidelity
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"Life before affordable home entertainment:
'A knife dropped on the floor forehows a male visitor, a dropped fork a female. But it is unlucky to pick up a knife you have dropped yourself: someone else must do it for you.
'Never cross two knives, or lay a knife and fork crosswise: lest "crosses" (or troubles) follow.'" — Jun 09, 2019 10:42PM
"Life before affordable home entertainment:
'A knife dropped on the floor forehows a male visitor, a dropped fork a female. But it is unlucky to pick up a knife you have dropped yourself: someone else must do it for you.
'Never cross two knives, or lay a knife and fork crosswise: lest "crosses" (or troubles) follow.'" — Jun 09, 2019 10:42PM
Bri Fidelity
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(page 19 of 256)
"'It may seem difficult to imagine a professional architect existing 5000 years ago on a prehistoric Mediterranean island. But something very close to this must have been the case, because actual model buildings have survived. In some cases these show details of construction that could not be guessed at from the finished temple.'" — Jun 27, 2014 07:17AM
"'It may seem difficult to imagine a professional architect existing 5000 years ago on a prehistoric Mediterranean island. But something very close to this must have been the case, because actual model buildings have survived. In some cases these show details of construction that could not be guessed at from the finished temple.'" — Jun 27, 2014 07:17AM
“I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it.”
― I Await the Devil's Coming
― I Await the Devil's Coming
“It's hard to determine, at the start, what you will be able to bear for a lifetime.”
― Lint
― Lint
“I have been dying for nearly two-thirds of a year,' I said, 'and I have died enough.'
I stopped dying then and there, and in spite of moments of some provocation I have never died since.”
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I stopped dying then and there, and in spite of moments of some provocation I have never died since.”
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“I feel to think, he thinks to feel. It is I and my kind that have the wider range, because we can be impersonal as well as personal. We can escape ourselves.”
― A Modern Utopia
― A Modern Utopia
“I thought: I have come upon knowledge which other people do not have and the knowledge is obviously dangerous to have; others would be in equal danger if I revealed it to them.
'Yes,' said Burt, and he looked pleased.
But I hadn’t spoken.”
― Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
'Yes,' said Burt, and he looked pleased.
But I hadn’t spoken.”
― Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic
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