"There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical."

-- Giacomo Leopardi

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“You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.”

Source : "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.
“Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.”
“Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.”
“There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.”
“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”
“There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort - things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them - are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.”
“Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.”

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