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"I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless."
"The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.not cigarettes,they tell us,but a place to burn.or we're told:space and a place to flymight be thesame.the dead don't need me.nor do theliving.but the dead might needeachother.in fact, the dead might needeverything weneedandwe need so muchif we only knewwhat itwas.it isprobablyeverythingand we will allprobably dietrying to getitor diebecause wedon't getit.I hopeyou will understandwhen I am deadI got as muchaspossible."
"But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing."
"Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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