"...friendship is something you do."

-- Nuala O'Faolain

“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
“Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for awhile, we're less alone.”

Source : "Beautiful Ruins: A Novel". Book by Jess Walter, 2012.
“I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.”
“But I believe we all have an inner goodness; a little flame that stays alight through the worst of trials.”
“The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.”

Source : R. J. Hollingdale (2001). “Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy”, p.73, Cambridge University Press
“Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.”
“Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.”
“There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.”

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