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"I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?"
"Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart."
"Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress."
"I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name."
"The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else."
"Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet."
"If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination."
"One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!"
"Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you."
"She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love."
"If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby."
"Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them."
"It would just be nice if everybody would be nice."
"You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)"
"it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous."
"Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand."
"I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'"
"If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea."
"If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy."
"I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it."
