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“...children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of-- to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems

“Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“But even if I know what governs their trajectory, if I know the rules of the movement of things and how things are organized and how certain mutations, transformations, gestations take place, even if I know all that, I shall only have learnt how to get along after a fashion in the enormous gaol, the oppressive prison in which I am held. What a farce, what a snare, what a booby-trap. We were born cheated. For if we are not to know, if there is nothing to know, why do we have this longing to know?”
― Eugène Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal

“The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.”
― T.A. Uner

“If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye

“They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,�� she said with a hint
of sadness.
“You lost your mind a long time ago,�� he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. “That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,�� he reaffirmed her.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

“The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind chance. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.”
― Kafka, Franz

“Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff�� without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same old shit it’s always been ... I’ve said before that men who write mostly about men win prizes for revealing the human condition, while women who write about both men and women are filed away as writing “womens�� issues.�� Likewise, in fantasy, the imprimatur of a dude somehow makes stuff like romance, relationship drama, introspection, and adorable animal companions magically not girly after all.

In a sense, we male fantasists are allowed to be like money launderers for girl cooties."

[Game of Thrones and Invisible Cootie Vectors (blog post, March 30, 2014)]”
― Scott Lynch

“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems

“The more I know, the more I realize that I don't know much at all...”
― Hans Christian Hollenbeck, Highpoint

“Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition. Purity of heart and the capacity to channel desires toward personal self-mastery in holiness are part of the high calling of the Christian life. These remain necessities, despite the promises of a false humanism that claims that human nature has neither limits nor boundaries, being infinitely plastic and malleable -- a vain and counterproductive attempt to liberate humans from guilt.”
― George Cardinal Pell, God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society

“The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.”
― Jeremy Griffith

“There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves that their existence is not absurd.”
― Albert Camus

“Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.”
― Nocturnus Libertus

“The globalization and competitiveness of the world economy will ultimately result in the absolute division of human beings into two classes, and the more powerful of these classes will enslave the other until the human condition either evolves or comes to an end.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Quixotic

“Fan would have expected that one or two of the Girls would have long rebelled at spending a life in a room, would have begged, say, the dentist, to help them steal away, but the funny thing about this existence is that once firmly settled we occupy it with less guard than we know. We watch ourselves routinely brushing our teeth, or coloring the wall, or blowing off the burn from a steaming yarn of soup noodles, and for every moment there is a companion moment that elides onto it, a secret span that deepens the original’s stamp. We feel ever obliged by everyday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.”
― Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the journey to enlightenment. Over time it was found that the best way to control prejudices was to prevent acknowledgement of any substantial differences between the sexes. The dogma of politically correct culture emerged.”
― Jeremy Griffith, A Species in Denial

“Nous ne sommes pas libres. Et le ciel peut encore nous tomber sur la tête. Et le théâtre est fait pour nous apprendre d'abord cela”
― Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double

“My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground of conflicting moral codes and dogma. I was, therefore, back to normal.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.”
― Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit

“ដើម្បីអោយពេញក្ខណៈជាមនុស្ស ដំបូងដៃបំផុតមនុស្សត្រូវរស់នៅជាមួយការពិ��”
― Khem Veasna

“Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.”
― Karen Essex, Stealing Athena

“You see, in the end we're all miserable. It's the human condition.”
― Yvonne Prinz, The Vinyl Princess

“Human are the open books of the past, the machine of the present and an undisclosed technology of the future.”
― Ricky Saikia