Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Most Thought Provoking and Literary Violations of the Norm

The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.


—Isak Dinesen



The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.


–George Eliot



The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.


–George Eliot



Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.


–Carl Jung



Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.


—Henry David Thoreau



I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.


—Anna Louise Strong



Were there then no longing in time, there would be no peace in eternity.


—Josiah Royce



Whatever seeks out harm and avoids rewards must act against entropy. … determining to write has been an anti-entropic process for me. Even now I don’t understand why I do it, except for the fact that it is against entropy.


—Wang Xiaobo



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