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Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Vladimir Nabokov Glory

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire

The square root of I is I.

Vladimir Nabokov Bend Sinister

Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis: where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing

Shane Weller A Taste For The...

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Samuel Beckett Collected Poems...

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Treaty...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This...

Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey One Flew Over...

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

Wallace Stegner Crossing to...

The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

Jodi Picoult Lone Wolf

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

Jodi Picoult My Sister's...

Everything was dragging me toward the arts; even the study of modern philosophy suggested that philosophy was nonsense.

Steve Martin Born Standing...

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of...

W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge

I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I...

Haruki Murakami After Dark

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

Philip Pullman The Amber...

That she is alive is Bra, but that's not what it's all about.

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly,...

Margaret Atwood Wilderness Tips

They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride
They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

It is culture that is the bully.

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Flight to Arras

Marianne replaces the yogurt pot in the freezer now and asks Joanna if she finds it strange, to be paid for her hours at work - to exchange, in other words, blocks of her extremely limited time on...

Sally Rooney Normal People

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's...

Orson Scott Card Ender in Exile

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a...

Hunter S. Thompson Hell's Angels: A...

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Hunter S. Thompson Hell's Angels: A...

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

Hunter S. Thompson Hell's Angels: A...

Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?

Sena Jeter Naslund Ahab's Wife, or...

What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.

Sena Jeter Naslund Four Spirits

One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him...

Joseph Heller Picture This

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Epictetus The Discourses

What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?...

Epictetus The Discourses
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