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Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.
~ Philip Elliot Slater
Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of "moral justice" could occur in the American democracy.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Century follows century, yet events occur only in the present
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Memory is no more than the noun by which we imply that among the innumerable possible states of consciousness, many occur again in an imprecise way. - The Nothingness of Personality
~ Jorge Luís Borges
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
~ N. K. Jemisin
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
~ P. D. James
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
~ Douglas Adams
I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
lo bueno ni lo malo se detiene a revisar nuestros cálculos, ni aprecia nuestros esfuerzos, simplemente sucede.
~ Ray Loriga
I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.
~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
~ Galileo Galilei
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
~ Charles Olson
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~ George Santayana
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
~ George Santayana
Inside the human mind, an idea is a mental spark that occurs as a response to the challenge of a train of thought.
~ Eraldo Banovac
Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift … a place where poetry could never occur.
~ David Malouf
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Only in the present do things happen.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
~ Lee Simonson
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
~ Fernando Pessoa
It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.
~ Janis Birkeland
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
~ Jasper Johns
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.
~ Aleister Crowley