So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.
You just, barged in and flipped my entire world upside down,” he says, voice heated. “I didn’t know what to do.
But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word.
Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.
One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light!
Keep moving; don't stop by to check on whoever else is not willing to go. The entire road is yours to speed on till you get there. Never be discouraged!
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
Here's what I think: it's one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it's an entirely different thing when it arrives.
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they believe they aren't deluded.
She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.
That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.
Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn’t grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I’m an adult".
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.
Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a partner of their own, entirely for themselves alone. No one is satisfied with a room of their own any more.
Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.
There is a saying: Genius is perseverance. While genius does not consist entirely of editing, without editing it's pretty useless.
I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.
