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Quotes

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” - Annie Dillard

The loving eye is “the eye of one who knows that to know the seen, one must consult something other than one’s own will and interests and fears and imagination” - Marilyn Frye

“May heaven exist, though my place be in hell” - Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

“You look. All I see is a bunch of empty cups.” - Doc Hudson, Cars

"Don't you big-city racecars ever just take a drive?" - Sally Carrera, Cars

“I’ll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about. I’m pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I’m not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.” - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light–the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.” - David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“But it's equally not unjust for the state to use violence toward people who don't accept its legitimacy. After all, they said they preferred the state of nature - and in the state of nature there are no claims of justice.” - Benjamin Hoffman

“'And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.' 'Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.'” - Lord of the Rings

“Gaiseric…was a man of moderate height and lame in consequence of a fall from his horse. He was a man of deep thought and few words.” - Jordanes, 6th century historian

“[S]how the inside of your head in public, so people can see if they would like to live in there.” - Henrik Karlsson

“But genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself." - Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

“We offer no explanation as to why these architectures seem to work; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence.” - Noam Shazeer

“Dear Milena, I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: 'Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.' Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.” - Franz Kafka

“People will tell you that you have to do interesting, innovative, and impactful things, and this is the way you have to do that. It is not true. There are many paths to God.” - Andrew Wu

“One can always be so much more friendly to people who can’t stay long.” - CS Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), Shadowlands

“Ay, Mamá! What do you do when your dreams come true? I’ve spent my life inheriting dreams from you.” - Abuela Claudia, In the Heights

“I’m concerned about bananas when I’m hungry.” - Michael Domarkas

“As is true of many writers, their words were better than they were.” - Tim Kreider

“If life, as the man said, was song, theirs was more refrain than verse.” - Daniel Mason, North Woods

“Out here, no one tears down anyway—one just adds upon, agglutinates, house to house, shed to shed, like some monstrous German noun.” - Daniel Mason, North Woods

“Silly. Only grown-up men are scared of women.” - Kurt, The Sound of Music

“Besides, the life of a writer is a lonely one. You think you are alone as the years go by, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but whom love you. And that is an immense reward.” - Jorge Luis Borges

“If people could put rainbows in zoos, they’d do it.” - Hobbes

“Not today… Maybe today you’re more in love with magic than me. I like being able to tell the difference. It makes the days it is true mean something.” - Olivia, The Prestige

“Obsession is a young man’s game.” - Cutter, The Prestige

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