"But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.”
“Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.”
“Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.”

Source : "Adam Rayner Talks Tyrant, Joining the Show, Playing an Arab Character, Shocking Moments, Shooting the Pilot in Morocco, and His Character’s Motives". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2014.
“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin
“It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.”
“As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.”
“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.”

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