It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. TERTULLIAN Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really ... JEAN VANIER Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
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You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ... MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ... STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ... TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero. TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ... RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo... P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis... PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,... TIM O'BRIEN