Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
From Thornton Wilder
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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