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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck
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“You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags materialism

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags life, short, time

“You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags perception

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags creativity, ideas, people

“who knows? maybe in our lifetime.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags time, uncertainty

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags people, perception, society

“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags short

“She was very clever. She told the best lie of all – the truth.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags people, short, truth

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags pain, perception, short, truth

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags choice, death, inspirational, life

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags belief, choice, people, perception, short

“You see, there’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags existence, responsibility, society

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens to you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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tags childhood, existence, perception

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”

-Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
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tags loneliness, people, perception, philosophy

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