"Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write."

-- Finley Peter Dunne

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“Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.”
“Do yourself what you wish others to do.”
“I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.”
“My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.”
“We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.99, Penguin UK
“That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?”

Source : Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.202, Soho Press
“Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.”
“Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.”

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