Quotes
Authors
Victor Pelevin

"I am closest of all to happinessâ€”although I wonâ€™t attempt to define just what it isâ€”when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to â€˜comprehend,â€™ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself â€˜Iâ€™."

-- Victor Pelevin

#Beautiful Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes

“In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.”
“How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.”

Source : William H. Gass (2012). “World Within The Word”, p.264, Knopf
“After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.”

Source : "US politics live blog: Obama meets Iraqi PM; GOP rivals trade blows" by Richards Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.
“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.”
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
“Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity -- something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying.”
“I love painting and have a need to do it.”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

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