"The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster."

-- Eckhart Tolle

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“With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it”
“Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me”
“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.196
“If you really want your hair to look good, just don't wash it for a day. That's my secret.”
“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true...”
“If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.99, VM eBooks
“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.”

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