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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#death #experience #relationships #death

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand. ↗

— Russell Johnson

#really #understand

Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#experience

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#architects #beyond #deaths #live #their

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#advantage #assumes #because #claimed #equivalent

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. ↗

— Richard Mentor Johnson

#call #cannot #citizens #deprive #exercised

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#dreamed #except #feel #freeze #had

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come. ↗

— Russell Johnson

#around #come #delighted #except #fans

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#insight #mind #reading #tastes #attitude

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#harder #hits #life crisis #men #mid-life