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"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - What then?" — Apr 17, 2013 03:06PM
"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - What then?" — Apr 17, 2013 03:06PM
Alan Navarrete said:
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"Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid."Luke, ch. viii. 32-37. ...more "
“let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless.”
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“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ”
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Sentía una inmensa ternura por ella. Estaba seguro de que la querría siempre, para mi dicha y también mi desdicha.”
― Travesuras de la niña mala
― Travesuras de la niña mala
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”
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