The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Peter De Vries


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I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

Peter De Vries

Stichwörter: life-experience human-condition



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We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or 'matters' or has 'meaning,' a glaze of charm or humor by which we conceal from one another and perhaps even ourselves the suspicion that it does not, and our conviction in times of trouble that it is overpriced - something to be endured rather than enjoyed.

Peter De Vries


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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

Peter De Vries

Stichwörter: family relationships



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The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the rest poets" (170).

Peter De Vries


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