"You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial."

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Source : "Timescape". Book by Gregory Benford, 1980.

Gregory Benford

#Pain Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.”

Source : "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". www.oprah.com. February 2009.
“The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.”
“The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.”
“That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.”
“Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.”
“Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

Source : "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)
“A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.”
“I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.126, Penguin

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