Life is always painful for people who love those who reject them and dispise those who accept them.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
The man who has no memory makes one out of paper.
Guilt is a heavy chain that rattles behind you wherever you go. It's part of your body. Finally you don't notice it any longer.
The bush-fire that burns at the edges of the plains can be contained; the fire that burns at its heart cannot be extinguished. A man may take a bullet in the leg and yet live, but not a bullet through the heart.
The happiness of each day is nourished by the memory of what we experienced yesterday, the week before, last year, and by the effort of repeating similar moments.
Pain is temporary.
There are cities which don't need literature: they are litterature.
I'm a free woman, but I'm still looking for the man of my dreams.
Then we imagined that the earth was like a dog shaking itself so people fell off like fleas into space.
The place where you stand is the centre of the world.
Beauty should be a reflection of all that we have learned is good in the world.
When you dreamt of something evil, be sure it was in the immediate future, but when you dreamt of something good it might take quite some time before it was realised.
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Love should require very little to satisfy it.
Because freedom is like sunlight, the best thing in the world.
As long as I can get out of here, I can go anywhere.
Blue was weak ink. Black ink on white paper, now that looked like the perfect representation of truth absolute.
You must go as far as the limitations of your life will allow. Find a way to do what you can, even though things seem to be crashing all around you. Sometimes they are not breaking down at all, sometimes things are taking a different shape. Try to recognise the pattern even if it is one you don't like, then maybe you can do something about it.
Hvis du har lyst å lære om hvordan amerikansk politikk funker og hvordan USA ble til det landet slik vi kjenner det i dag på en lett og oversiktlig måte, så er denne boken en god start. Her får man f.eks. vite litt om hvordan den engelske Amerika var de ca. 150 år før de løsrevet seg og dannet USA fra 1776, hvordan USA utvidet seg flere ganger utover 1800-tallet og hvorfor de statene som senere ble Canada ikke ble med i den frie unionen i tillegg til hvordan amerikanske poltikk systemet ble og kun ha blitt hvis en annen retning vant frem.