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That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.


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With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.



They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.



They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.



There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.



Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.



Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.



Loss was a night that never ended.

Loss was a night that never ended.



We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.



Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.



Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?





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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.



I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

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Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life

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This page presents the quote "That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.". Author of this quote is Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned. This quote is about relationships, loneliness, storytelling,.