"Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you."

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Horace

#Destiny Quotes #Trying Quotes #Ends Quotes

“You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
“I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.”
“The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.”
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”
“[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.”
“Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.”
“Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.”
“God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.”

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