| 4 March, 2009 |
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. It is only the first step that is difficult. A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death? When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Give all to love; obey thy heart. The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. |
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