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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.


Mark Twain


#sharing #noble

Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me weep: tongues confused, a language strained in anguish with cadences of anger, shrill outcries and raucous groans that joined with sounds of hands, raising a whirling storm that turns itself forever through that air of endless black, like grains of sand swirling when a whirlwind blows. And I, in the midst of all this circling horror, began, "Teacher, what are these sounds I hear? What souls are these so overwhelmed by grief?" And he to me: "This wretched state of being is the fate of those sad souls who lived a life but lived it with no blame and with no praise. They are mixed with that repulsive choir of angels neither faithful nor unfaithful to their God, who undecided stood but for themselves. Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them, for fear the damned might glory over them." And I. "Master, what torments do they suffer that force them to lament so bitterly?" He answered: "I will tell you in few words: these wretches have no hope of truly dying, and this blind life they lead is so abject it makes them envy every other fate. The world will not record their having been there; Heaven's mercy and its justice turn from them. Let's not discuss them; look and pass them by...


Dante Alighieri


#inspiring #anger

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.


Helen Keller


#avoiding #children #danger #daring #does

In the end, single people either get boring, or they stay divorced.


Benson Bruno


#boring #divorce #divorce

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.


Dorothy Parker


#flowering #suicide #trees #gay

Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet


Sabrina Childress


#life-experience #sabrina-childress #experience

I drink to separate my body from my soul.


Oscar Wilde


#drink #oscar-wilde #soul #separation

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.


Marcel Proust


#healing #suffering #healing

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance


William Shakespeare


#drinking #alcohol

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.


Warren Ellis


#drinking #whisky #alcohol






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