"A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ..."

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Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.583, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Travel Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Solitary Quotes

“There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.”
“Everyone's got that frustrating thing and that's a natural feeling, but you know I'm 31 years old and I'm happy with what I'm doing. You know I'm not rich, I'm not wealthy at all but I'm happy and I'm surrounded by the people and the things that I care about and it's good.”

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“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.”
“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”
“The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.”
“The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.”
“That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.”
“A life without impact and contribution is a very empty life, so use your life to make the world better.”

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