Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!
Aku telah mengidap sakit gila nomor enam belas: yakni penyakit manusia yang membuat dunia sendiri dalam kepalanya, menciptakan masalah-masalahnya sendiri, terpuruk di dalamnya, lalu menyelesaikan masalah-masalah itu, sambil tertawa-tawa, juga sendirian.
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
The things that don't happen to us that we'll never know didn't happen to us. The nonstories. The extra minute to find the briefcase that makes you late to the spot where a tractor trailer mauled another car instead of yours. The woman you didn't meet because she couldn't get a taxi to the party you had to leave early from. All of life is a series of nonstories if you look at it that way. We just don't know what they are.
Nobody steals books but your friends.
I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.
Even things that are true can be proved.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
She walks in beauty. (118)
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
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