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Stuff That Has Struck Me

There was once a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

"In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway."Fight Club

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."Friedrich Nietzsche

"I came to make peace with you, even if you're the father of lies. I want things to be as they were."Interview with a Vampire

So what's more likely? That a mysterious, all-powerful God created the Universe, and then decided not to leave a single evidence of his existence? Or that He simply doesn´t exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and lonely? Contact

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal.
Oscar Wilde;The Ballad of Reading Gaol

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life. You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own any more. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darknes, so working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. -Neil Gaiman

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough. -Edna St. Vincent Milay, Conversation at Midnight

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. -Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.) Mark Twain

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven. Mark Twain

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!-Albert Einstein

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. Albert Einstein

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. Goethe

"Why is my spirit so exquisite with dark places? And why do I no longer care?" --Ariadne Zeitwellen Masters-Chambers

I've lived to bury my desires,
And see my dreams corrode with rust;
Now all that's left are fruitless fires
That burn my empty heart to dust.
Aleksandr Pushkin

Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley; Adonais

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.-Alexander Pope

“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.”-JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit