Pride makes us long for a solution to things -“ a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.
– Julian Barnes
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- The Bible teaches that we are to be patient in suffering. Tears become telescopes to heaven, bringing eternity a little closer. – Billy Graham
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- Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. – Jesse Lee Bennett
- Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction! – Dada Bhagwan
- If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I know your final destination, I suggest to change it. (Is it Okay??? (FINAL DESTINATION FILM) ) – Deyth Banger
- Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. – Julian Barnes
- Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? – Julian Barnes
- Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. – Julian Barnes
- Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. – Julian Barnes
- The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. – Julian Barnes
- The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else. – Julian Barnes
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
- You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I’m afraid, looks a ????ing mess. – Julian Barnes
- Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex. – Julian Barnes
- you find yourself repeating, -˜They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays. – Julian Barnes
- Of course, there were other sorts of literature — theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical — but they were just dry wanks. – Julian Barnes
- There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. – Julian Barnes
- He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. – Julian Barnes
- …I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. – Julian Barnes
- But I don’t remember. I won’t remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting. – Julian Barnes
- wear flannel next to your skin, and never believe in eternal punishment. – Julian Barnes
- Opera cuts to the chase-”as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart. – Julian Barnes
- May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. – Julian Barnes
- But life never lets you go, does it? You can’t put down life the way you put down a book. – Julian Barnes
- Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke. – Julian Barnes
- ..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. – Julian Barnes
- I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. – Julian Barnes
- If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. – Julian Barnes
- Irony – The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity. – Julian Barnes
- Time…give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. – Julian Barnes