"When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better."

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Source : Zona Gale (1909). “Friendship Village Love Stories”

Zona Gale

“The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.”
“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.”
“The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.”
“Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.”
“O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.”
“We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate,”
“Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.”
“We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.”

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