Listening, they soon learn everything, even the difference between falsehood and truth, which is the height of wisdom.
– Jose Saramago The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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“He said what he thought, and they said what they thought, and neither of them understood the other a bit.”
– T. H. WHITE The Once and Future King
Maybe this was the unstated purpose of education, to get young people to see the world through the tired eyes of age: disappointment and exhaustion and defeat masquerading as wisdom.
– RICHARD RUSSO Chances Are…
It wasn’t in fact possible to strip life of its cluster for the simple reason that life was clutter.
– RICHARD RUSSO Chances Are…
“The difficulty with women is that their feelings are apt to get interested sooner than ours, and then, you know, reasoning is out of the question.”
– Bret Harte The Man of No Account
“How obstinate is the optical illusion that always makes our neighbor’s troubles seem less and his job more lovable!”
– PRIMO LEVI The Monkey Wrench
For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy;…
– VIRGINIA WOOLF Orlando
Happiness… is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
– F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The Beautiful and Damned
