For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.
James BaldwinTag: life world virtue pride decision personality
You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.
Daniel NayeriFind people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
John RatzenbergerWhen people divide, things end. Therefore: I won't divide because I don't want this to end.
Daniel C. TomasTag: life inspirational world end
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin GayeTag: life world peace self inspiring
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar WildeTag: deception world romance naive
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le GuinTag: imagination equality poetry world humanity loneliness solipsism
I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
Greta GarboTag: life world sincerity camille
Smartass Disciple: Master, how do I know that I am not dreaming right now ?
Master of Stupidity: You don’t. Only those who see you're dreaming can tell it.
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
Michel de MontaigneTag: humor world problems troubles misunderstandings grammar de-montaigne
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