#uf

Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it. The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die." (The Faith of a Heretic) ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#creativity #death #eternity #love #walter-kaufmann

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#anoint #grease #great #king #other

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fall #hardest #his #make #man

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. ↗

— Frank Black

#back #brother #cost #free #get

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#comfortable #gets #going #i #like

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#battle #conducted #demand #men #only

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff. ↗

— Gary Webb

#anything #believe #especially #government #important

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#birthday #got #i #i always #lot

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #ancestors #been #beloved #echo

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#illusions #images #our #place #primarily