#eat

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#between #great #gulf #hand #meaning

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater. ↗

— Dorothy McGuire

#entered #extraordinary #had #i #moment

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#around #ass #boot #boot camp #camp

A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #death

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be. ↗

— William Stolzenburg

#death

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ↗

— Andre Gide

#been #begins #created #ever #great

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. ↗

— Andre Gide

#condition #except #go #good #greatest