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No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing — yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#on-people-in-books #writing #life

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pride #women #life

Try living your life to the fullest. If you won't then, what's the point of living? ↗

— Sonia Kaur

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We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety. ↗

— Floriano Martins

#knowledge #life #life

Smartass Disciple: What were you thinking when the truth is revealed unto you? Master of Stupidity: I wasn't thinking. I was having sex when it came to my mind. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #sex #truth #life

Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on earth.© VW ↗

— Virginia Wright

#buzz #buzzzzzzzzzz #childrens-books #honeybees #insects

I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mind #move #primitive #slow #life

Just live your life. ↗

— Simranpreet Kaur Shergill

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It tells us that ceaseless prayer in pursuit of God and communion with Him is not simply life's meaning or goal, the one thing worth living for, but it is life itself. ↗

— Olga Savin

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...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47) ↗

— Donald Rothberg

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