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“Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding”

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Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author born on March 5, 1966. He is known for his experimental narrative techniques and visual style in literature, with notable works including 'The Room' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife'. more

“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.”

“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”

Important Facts Connected

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Soul Desire Love You Vanity Your Soul Liars True You You Think You Know Pettiness

Author:Alison Croggon

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Ifs Love Mind Said Would Be Water Poor Sweet Daughter Grandmother My Grandmother

Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.”

Alive

Book:Speed-the-plow

Source: Speed-the-plow

“The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias”

Seeing Bias

Book:We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

Source: We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.”

Knows Way Dies Involved Prepared Be Prepared

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

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