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#beings

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Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in every detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him - for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealized, or otherwise absent figure, but of a unique being of flesh and blood, Yet, what a real living human being is made of seems to be less understood today than at any time before, and men - each one of whom represents a unique and valuable experiment on the part of nature - are therefore shot wholesale nowadays. If we were not something more than unique human beings, if each one of us could really be done away with once and for all by a single bullet, storytelling would lose all purpose. But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.


Hermann Hesse


#hermann-hesse #human-beings #novel #religion #story

I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.


Emeril Lagasse


#actively #back #because #beings #doing

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.


R. D. Laing


#alienation #beings #destiny #human #human beings

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.


Tanith Lee


#beings #dead #get #gods #heads

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.


Tim Berners-Lee


#agents #around #before #beings #browse

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.


George R. R. Martin


#examples #good #human #human beings #kings

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.


Thabo Mbeki


#attain #because #beings #communicate #decent

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#away #beings #enough #giving #goodness

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.


Jacques Yves Cousteau


#bleak #faith #future #hope #human

I know that human beings are capable of anything.


Ben Okri


#beings #capable #human #human beings #i






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