If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unco...
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our par...
One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone.
In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we se...
Length of smile get reduced as people grow up!!!
Seeds eat no mudStem eats no seed,Leaf eats no stem,Flower consumes no leafNor fruit eats flower,The fruit, quit the tree with happinessWithout harming it.But the intelligent human-being, eats up all;...
Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.
The human heart is a dark forest
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a diffe...
O what we ben! And what we come to!
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
It's like when you find out your lover has been unfaithful: in one horrible instant everything she was to you, the whole beautiful enchantment, falls away, and you see her as she really is - mortal, m...
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreemen...
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind chance. C...
jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.
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