"I really love things with melody."

-- Norah Jones

“A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.”
“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”
“Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.”
“I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.”
“Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.”
“Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.”
“When animals do something noble we say they are behaving â€˜like humansâ€™. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving â€˜like animalsâ€™. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings.”
“If love doesnâ€™t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from lifeâ€™s wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, itâ€™s that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and thatâ€™s what weâ€™re really after, isnâ€™t it?”

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