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«Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys»
«Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.»
«It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.»
Author: Henry Rollins
(Actor, Author, Poet, Singer)
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Love,
Solitude
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«All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.»
Author: John Coltrane
(Saxophonist)
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closer, Communion, Get closer, musician, natural laws, sources, The Natural
«All of the happiness you seek, all of the joy for which you prayed, is closer than you think, it's just a hundred tears away...»
« I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can understand it, yet you can never understand it totally. It is elusive, it escapes. It is within reach, but it is not within grasp. You are always coming closer and closer to it, but you never arrive. And the day you arrive, then you are no more there; the distinction between the seeker and the sought disappears. Then you are it. That art thou -- then you are it! »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
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«He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors»
«A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.»
«Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.»
«Excuse me, officer, but would you mind bringing the wreckage a little closer this way? My wife can't see»
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