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  1. Bell Hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.
    book-quotelovelifegrowth

  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
    book-quotesecuritydreamsgoals

  3. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
    book-quoteimaginationdreamsirrationality

  4. Betty Smith _ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
    book-quotemothernihilismwinter

  5. Michael Chabon _ The Amazing Adventures of

    There is only one sure means in life," Deasey said, "of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility, and disillusion. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.
    book-quotemoneyfutilitydisillusion

  6. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Adventure of the Dying

    I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
    book-quotesherlock-holmeselectricityenergy

  7. E.M. Forster _ Howards End

    She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.
    book-quotesocietyfutilityself-doubt

  8. J.R.R. Tolkien _ Morgoth's Ring

    Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.
    book-quotewisdomfutility

  9. John Updike _ Rabbit, Run

    Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call to his memory, and the forgotten smell of that narrow plastic ribbon you braid bracelets and whistlechains out of and of glue and of the sweat on the handles on athletic equipment is blown down by a breeze laced with children's murmuring. He feels the truth: the thing that has left his life has left irrevocably; no search would recover it. No flight would reach it. It was here, beneath the town, in these smells and these voices, forever behind him. The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
    book-quotechildhoodsense-memorylost-innocence

  10. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.
    book-quotehopegriefregrets

  11. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
    book-quotehumorfutility

  12. James Clavell _ Tai-Pan

    If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable-if the sea wants you and your time has come.
    book-quotedrowningsailing1966
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