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"True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity."
"My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms."
"And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks"
"Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing."
"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."
"I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here."
"I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run."
"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe."
"Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out."
"Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on."
"I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time."
"Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan."
"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
"I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there."
"I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice."
"We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions."
"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
"I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?"
"Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet."
