Literature Quotes - Page 3

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

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Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

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This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even have the disastrous effect on the reader of taking him happily for a few hours out of his own real life in N.W.8. Why this should be a matter for regret I do not know; nor why realism in a novel is so much admired when realism in a picture is condemned as mere photography; nor, I might add, why drink and fornication should seem to bring the realist closer to real life than, say, golf and gardening.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

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Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

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Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

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Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

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Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

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Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

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Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

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Sunbathe from within.

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Absolute equals nothingness.

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Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

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How does one say something new and not retell?

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After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

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His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

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Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.

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Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

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He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

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Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.

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Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.

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If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.

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When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

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We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

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Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

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Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

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In the lie of truth lies the truth.

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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

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How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

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We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

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Teaching others, he corrected himself.

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We need knew knights, but without swords.

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Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

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All those big words produce disgust today.

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Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

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Your head is a lit chamber.

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Either you will be you or you will not be at all.

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Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

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We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

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Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

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How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

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It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

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The game itself is bigger than the winning.

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If you are good, they say you are weak.

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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

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We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

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If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

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The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

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Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

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Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

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Disease often comes with a smiling face.

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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

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Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

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Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

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Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

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Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

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