When he shall die,
take him and cut him out in little stars,
and he will make the face of heaven so fine,
that all the world will be in love with night,
and pay no worship to the garish sun.
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The way I am, the way it is with me, you'll never grow old. Because I keep you right here in my mind. And in my heart. Just the way you were when I saw you last. So you see, with me, you can't get old. Your hair will always stay brown, your skin will always be fresh like rain. I won't let one little wrinkle mark your face. I'll keep you beside me, young and beautiful forever. Because of all the people in the world, only with me will you be safe from time. ~ Johnny Got His Gun
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. ~ Sun Tzu
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Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
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I tried, sir. See the stars? So cold, so far, and so very lonely. Oh, so lonely. All that space... just... empty space. And so far from home. I've circled round and round this house, orbit after orbit. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like never to stop, and circle alone up there forever. And what if I got there - got to the moon - and couldn't get back? Sure, everyone dies, but I'm afraid to die ALONE, so far from home. And if there's no God, then that's really, REALLY alone. ~ The Ninth Configuration
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His gaze is from the passing of bars so exhausted, that it doesn't hold a thing anymore. For him, it's as if there were thousands of bars and behind the thousands of bars no world. The sure stride of lithe, powerful steps, that around the smallest of circles turns, is like a dance of pure energy about a center, in which a great will stands numbed. Only occasionally, without a sound, do the covers of the eyes slide open. An image rushes in, goes through the tensed silence of the frame only to vanish, forever, in the heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ~ 1 Corinthians 13
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Cursed missed opportunities.
Am I a part of the cure.
Or am I part of the disease? ~ Coldplay
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ~ William Shakespeare
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ~ John Donne
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You could tell he really liked this girl who worked there, but she just smiled at him like a little child. He knew he could never have a girl like that around his arm. I started to think that he knew. He knew that nobody looked at him like a normal kid. People either laughed at him or felt sorry for him. He couldn't do anything about it. He was trapped. He knew everything. ~ The United States of Leland
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Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man. ~ Taxi Driver
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ~ John Milton
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ~ Karl Marx
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When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union. ~ Taxi Driver
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. ~ Dale Carnegie
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~ Dale Carnegie
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Remember that a person's name is to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language
~ Dale Carnegie
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. ~ Dale Carnegie
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Isabel: Kneel, Conquistador.
[Tomas kneels before her]
Isabel: Let in the morning light.
[the doors are opened; light floods into the hall]
Isabel: The beast runs amok in my kingdom. He has isolated me, and now he is sharpening his talons for one more fateful push. But salvation lies in the jungles of New Spain. Will you deliver Spain from bondage? ~ The Fountain
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I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms, at night I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep. ~ SpongeBob SquarePants
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You know the downward spiral is essentially a chain reaction. They're all reactions! One thing begets the next. A man has a weakness, he's flawed. That flaw leads him to guilt. The guilt leads him to shame. The shame he compensates with pride and vanity. And when pride fails, despair takes over and they all lead to his destruction. It will become his fate... Something's gotta stop the flow. ~ Ink
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All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pull me through time. ~ The Fountain
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All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living. ~ Iain Thomas
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It covers my eyes. It's all I can see. Say there's some kids playing baseball. All I see is the one kid they won't let play because he tells corny jokes. And no-one thinks they're funny. Or I see a boy and a girl in love and kissing, you know. I just see that they're gonna be one of those sad old couples one day who just cheats on each other and can't even look at each other in the eye. And I feel it. I feel all of their sadness. I feel it probably even worse than that sad old couple or that corny kid will ever feel it. ~ The United States of Leland
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I recall when our lives were unusual and electric. When we burned with something close to fire. But now we sway to a different rhythm. Lives lived without meaning or even directed hope. The passage of time measured only by loss. Loss of a job, loss of a minivan... a son. ~ The United States of Leland
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If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected . ~ Sun Tzu
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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. ~ Sun Tzu
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In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. ~ Sun Tzu
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When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
~ Sun Tzu
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1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature. ~ Pi
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~ Dale Carnegie
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It was possible to learn, the problem was, did I want to ? ~ Fantastic Planet
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Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I could always live in my art, but never in my life. ~ Ingmar Bergman
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You learn, like the Tibetans, to survive on a little. ~ The Addiction
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Oh, the stench here is worse than a charnel house. This is a graveyard. Rows of crumbling tombstones. Vicious libelous epitaphs. And we're all drawn here like flies. ~ The Addiction
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It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. ~ American Beauty
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Time and tide wait for no man. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
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For every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light. ~ The Fountain
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At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories, as now, when seems, once more, the goal in sight again... ~ Robert Browning
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Life flows too slowly on me. So I speed it up. I set it right. ~ Le Feu Follet
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C'est la vie' - that's life; such is life.
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The earth turned to bring us closer. It turned on itself and in us, until it finally brought us together in this dream. ~ Eugenio Montejo
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I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its jewel boxes is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure, and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the petal hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl. I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead of human eyes, dead in those darknesses, of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes on the timid globe of an orange. I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind. ~ Pablo Neruda
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Put your arms around me. I need to feel their warmth, to keep the chill of death away. ~ Johnny Got His Gun
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Existence is the search for relief from our habit, and our habit is the only relief we can find. ~ The Addiction
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I'm not concerned with where I am or how I got there. I'm at peace and it's then that I realize I'm dead. My body begins to turn a greenish-white with spots of purple. Next, the insects arrive. The inevitable follows, putridity and liquescence. Before I know it, I'm nothing but bones. When I start fading to dust, I lose whatever care I still might have had about where my clothes are and as I begin to feel myself slipping away towards I know not what... ~ The X-Files
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There are a thousand men hacking away at the branches of the tree of evil but only one is hacking at the roots. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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A baby holds your hands, and then suddenly, there's this huge man lifting you off the ground, and then he's gone. Where's that son? ~ My Dinner With Andre
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Learn to fish and you have created a wonderful business opportunity, teach a man to fish and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. ~ Karl Marx
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You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. ~ Osho
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I once knew a happy man, but the happiness was a curse. ~ Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
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The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. ~ Job 1:21
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I think there are two ways you can see the world. You either see the sadness that's behind everything or you choose to keep it all out. Your heart can't break if you don't let the world touch it. ~ The United States Of Leland
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ~ Sir Isaac Newton
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Could have, would have, should have - models of lost opportunity.
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