"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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Plutarch

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“To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.”
“Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.”

Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.117, Knopf
“I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!”
“It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.”
“Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.”
“There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.”

Source : "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.
“I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.”
“I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.”

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