"Only by Failure : The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray by Paul Cornwell"

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“Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane — while the other half of the window is wide open?”

“The Buddha forbore to specify: as long as there is any "one" to suffer — he will.”

“There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.”

“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.”

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"Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life."

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"To the Muslims, a Hindu is a Kafir. A Kafir is not worthy of respect. He is a low born and without status. That is why a country ruled by the kafir is a ‘Dar ul harb’ to a Muslim, which must be conque…"

— B. R. Ambedkar

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"However, suicides and would-be suicides often have such a great literal lust for life that they constantly put it into jeopardy, so that they can experience what it is in heightened form."

— Jane Roberts

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"Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived."

— Jack McDevitt

Literature1935

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