"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair."

Percy, Walker on life
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"A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them."

Teran, Lisa St. Aubin De on travel
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"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."

Hazlitt, William on tyranny
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

Kierkegaard, Søren on tyranny   

"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

Kierkegaard, Søren on paradox
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"The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox."

Joshi, Kedar on paradox
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"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them."

Wilde, Oscar on paradox
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"A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial."

Twain, Mark on trials
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"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."

Foley, Will on trials
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"God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials."

Gressett, J. K. on trials
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trials
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"When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men."

Genet, Jean on trials   

"Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on freedom
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"A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe."

Bhagavad Gita on conflict
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist"

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

Crisp, Quentin on life
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"Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed."

Crisp, Quentin on adultery   

"The greatest step is out the door."

Proverb, German on action
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"Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again."

Unknown, Source on humor
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"Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side."

Whipple, Edwin P. on humor   

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."

Wilson, Flip on humor
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"If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her."

Williamson, Nicol on humor
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"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on humor   

"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life."

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett on humor   

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

Havel, Vaclav on humor
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"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

Colby, Frank Moore on humor
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"Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole."

Unknown, Source on humor
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"You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct."

Maugham, W. Somerset on adultery
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"Adultery is the application of democracy to love."

Mencken, H. L. on adultery
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"O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!"

Shakespeare, William on adultery   

"Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor."

Taylor, Jeremy on adultery
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"It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian."

Updike, John on adultery
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"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on expectation
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"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

Tracy, Brian on expectation
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"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."

Peale, Norman Vincent on expectation
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Addison, Joseph on appreciation
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on dependence
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"Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you."

Steere, Bishop on thoughts and thinking
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