"For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face."

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Source : "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

David Zindell

#Animal Quotes #Black Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
“If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.”
“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”
“I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.”
“I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.”
“Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.”

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