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subota, 10.04.2010.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
