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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, oh man?
We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.
And like every woman who has ever preached repentance to unregenerate youth, she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.
When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when'tis obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.
Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space, and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith. They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination, for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.