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“Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad”

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Rainer Maria Rilke

German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more

“By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!”

Feels Said Eye Running Able Three Hours Morning Calling Computer Yesterday Routine Void Hopelessness Email Consuming Unimportant Prospects Scapegoat

Author:Tim Ferriss

“I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.”

Ifs Ends Animal Moral Fables

Author:Margaret Atwood

“She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.”

Ifs Way Reality Eye Faces Dark Behinds Enemy Come Up Harsh Peril Dark Days

Book:A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

Source: A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

“Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.”

People Said Two Important Together Couple Conversation Important Things Gaps

Author:Jess Walter

“You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.”

Break Habit Structure Break Through

Book:Falling Man

Source: Falling Man

“The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.”

People Mind Humans Two Stories Form Turns Individual Common Race Break Environment Pieces Events Example Bears Constant Meetings Human Race Plot Texture One Piece Break Off

Author:Italo Calvino

“Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –”

Soul Self Spirituality Expression Fine Higher Ideals Sake Noble Loyalty Surrender Impulse Doing Good Unselfish Expressions Of Love

Author:David O. McKay

“If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness”

Ifs Want Fall White Darkness Please Falling Down Please Me

Author:Geraldine McCaughrean

“For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive”

Sin Alive Notion Glad Deep Inside

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him”

Matter Facts Assuming Mask Contempt Worn Misunderstood Matter Of Fact

Book:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Source: The Scarlet Pimpernel

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