"To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors ma..."
- Fernando Pessoa
"There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mu..."
- Glen Duncan
"I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space."
- James Joyce
"Q: The Continuum didn't think you had it in you, Jean-Luc. But I knew you did...We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did.Picard:..."
- Brannon Braga
"How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but ..."
- Walker Percy
"Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful."
- T.L. Rese
"If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and ..."
- Henry Miller
"As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of..."
- Natsuo Kirino
"We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising."
- Lynn Schooler
"I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, i..."
- Dezső Kosztolányi