"To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !"

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Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers

Mikhail Naimy

#Pain Quotes #Prey Quotes #Live By Quotes

“Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.”
“One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.”
“President Obama admitted this week that a former girlfriend that he wrote about in his autobiography was made up and not a real person . . . So Obama had an imaginary girlfriend. Big deal! He had an imaginary economic plan. Itâ€™s all the same.”
“When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
“If we are wise, we never leave school.”

Source : Horace Fletcher (1895). “Menticulture: Or, The A-B-C of True Living”
“Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.”
“There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from May 09, 2012

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