"It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it."

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Source : "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.

Susanna Kaysen

#Dying Quotes #Insane Quotes #World Quotes

“If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.”
“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.”
“Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.”
“Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.”
“Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.”
“All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.”
“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”
“Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.”

Source : Debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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