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“When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.”
Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”
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“... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”
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“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.”
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“I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right”
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“It's important to come to know that this is all there is. There isn't something to attain, there is only something to be.”
Source : Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse (2012). “Learning to Love Yourself: Finding Your Self-Worth”, p.30, Health Communications, Inc.
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“The function, what a nice form!”
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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.”
Source : Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.
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“There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.”
