“Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.” — Daniel Pinchbeck, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
Category: Quotations
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“If you have a Royal Family you have to make the best of whatever personalities the genetic lottery comes up with.” — Ben Pimlott, The Independent (01997-09-13)
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“It’s interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.” — Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad
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“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.” — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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“The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use.” — Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
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“Much dumber people than you end up in charge.” — DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
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“You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.” — Eden Phillpotts, The Ring Fence
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“The difference between death and other forms of human experience lies in this, that we can gain no information about it. The dead man is wise, but he is silent.” — Alexander Smith, “Of Death and the Fear of Dying,” Dreamthorp
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“The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.” — Adam Phillips, In Writing
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“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” — Edward John Phelps, “Farewell to England,” The Orations & Essays of Edward John Phelps
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