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"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."

"They (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come."

"I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around."

"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."

"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."

"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher."

"I unlocked the deadbolt and flung the door open, stepping back for Gabby to see exactly who it was. 'Hello, Sara, I greeted.A bubble of laughter escaped Gabby before she could contain it. 'Yes, hello ex-girlfriend Sara. And might I add: law-breaker? Who let you out of your cage? Don't you know Joseph has a restraining order against you?"

"Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."
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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."


"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."


"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth."


"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."


"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."


"The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers."
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