Still

You may not know what you're missing,
but you're still missing it.

If

If you're going to dream small,
then why dream at all?

Unabated (Ogden)

The internal conversation known as dreaming is no more an event limited to the hours of sleep than the existence of stars is limited to the hours of darkness. Stars become visible at night when their luminosity is no longer concealed by the glare of the sun. Similarly, the conversation with ourselves that in sleep we experience as dreaming continues unabated and undiluted in our waking life.

Thomas H. Ogden, Conversations on the Frontier of Dreaming

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Yet such is (Murdoch)

Absolute devotion of one human being to another is comparatively rare, yet such is the dazzling light of egoism in which each of us lives that when devotion fails us in some quarter where we have looked to find it we feel amazement, shocked surprise, that so great a value should not be an object of love.

Iris Murdoch, The Red and The Green

Regret

Regret everything or regret nothing.

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The argument

The argument that justice applies only to the finite is hard to refute.

Failure

A martyr, however favored, is a failure.

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A rehearsal (Roy)

Maybe that's what life is, or ends up being most of the time:  a rehearsal for a performance that never eventually materializes.

Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Introspection

Introspection would be tedious and unrewarding in the extreme were it limited to our looking just at our own small selves. But it isn't. It's us looking at ourselves looking at the world.

Is art

The only thing humans do
that is justifiable
is art.

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Hard road

Hard road behind, getting longer.
Hard road in front, getting shorter.

The new order (Moore)

During the night something inside him had changed. Each time he thought things had reached a plateau of weirdness, something even weirder had happened. The result, he realized, was that he was now accepting anything that happened, no matter how weird, without resistance. Chaos was the new order in his life.

Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

Evil Spock says

Live wrong and prosper.