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Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul." – Soren Kierkegaard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. – Dodie Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. – Frank Herbert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from. – George Eliot, internet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. – Alfred A. Montapert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. – A. C. Benson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. – Alan Saporta	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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