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"The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the bare, shivering human soul, stripped to the last shred, the naked force of the human psyche for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbour, as cold and lonely as itself."

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life."

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

"You are never dedicated to something that you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always beacuse these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

"I look to God but the sky is empty."

Sylvia Plath, Thanks Rosie / Manics

"But spectacles have a function, and they function only when you put them on, to look through them at the world. It is the same with language. That is to say, one shouldn't waste one's life in spectacle-cleaning or talking about language, or in trying to get a clear view of our language, or of 'our conceptual scheme'. The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something; and this something is, somehow, the world."

Karl Popper

"'I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?' Death thought about it 'Cats,' he said eventually, 'Cats are nice.'"

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery