Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequent connections can supply..

Jane Austen

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Angelina Jolie

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Christy Turlington

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Heather Bouwman

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Jean Baudrillard

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Paul Auster

Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel

Aristotle

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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