"At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold."

-- David James Duncan

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“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51
“I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.”
“Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.”

Source : Jefferson Davis (1876). “Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875”
“Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.”
“I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it”
“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”
“I love victory, but I love not triumph.”
“If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about Aztec pottery, you take a course. But the relationship with God requires the active and passionate participation of you, yourself. You have to risk it. You have to abandon yourself to it. You have to leap into the fire. Nobody will do it for you; nobody can do it for you.”

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