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“Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!”

Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.”

Ifs Men Life Years Mind Doe Lasts Life Is Suffering Next Known Path Week Distance Last Year Nevertheless Next Year Orbit Next Week Velocity Recurrence Periodicity

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.”

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.”

People Knows Life Wells Reality Seems Individual Levels Known Greatness Well Known Insignificant Individual Life

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.”

Life Persons Sometimes Whole Known Like You Comfortable Whole Life Clicks

Book:Halo

Source: Halo

“Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.”

Life Young Lost Known Fool Innocence Triumph Lost Love Labourers

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”

Life Made Life Is Desire Known Daughter Horse Pessimism Quantum Symptoms Vary Syndromes Leeches

Book:Murphy

Source: Murphy

“We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

Life Heaven Known Havens Maps

Book:Trilogy

Source: Trilogy

“Go to the streets that you have never been to! Wander in the places that you have never known! There is light in the hidden corners of life too! Expand your frontiers and the frontiers will expand you!”

Life Light Known Streets Corners Wander Frontiers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.”

Ifs Knows Life Country Play Names Language Pay Known Creatures Wings Plant Active Chess Flying Metals Butterfly Hunts Tribute Traders Snares Stravinsky Precious Metal

Author:Vladimir Nabokov