"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."

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Source : Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

Samuel Beckett

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“Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence trick ever tried the damage would be fairly minimal. But the problem is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of doctors believe the lie that they are taught; they believe that they are scientists, practising an applied science.”
“The ones who disappoint you need you the most.”
“There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2007). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.127, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.”
“"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.”

Source : "Sermons, fragments of sermons and letters". ed. by J. Gadsby,
“When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.”
“My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles, and, as I'm sure you can understand, I didn't feel any better about it.”
“I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.”

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